Scenescapes : How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life / Daniel Aaron Silver, Terry Nichols Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, Daniel Aaron, Author.

Clark, Terry Nichols, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ecology.

Sociology, Urban.

Place (Philosophy)--Social aspects.

Place (Philosophy).

Situation (Philosophy)--Social aspects.

Situation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given scene-one where we feel connected to other people, in places like a bar or a community center, a neighborhood parish or even a train station. Scenes enable experiences, but they also cultivate skills, create ambiances, and nourish communities. In Scenescapes, Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark examine the patterns and consequences of the amenities that define our streets and strips. They articulate the core dimensions of the theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy of local scenes-cafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more. Scenescapes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms, it details how scenes shape economic development, residential patterns, and political attitudes and actions. In vivid detail and with wide-angle analyses-encompassing an analysis of 40,000 ZIP codes-Silver and Clark give readers tools for thinking about place; tools that can teach us where to live, work, or relax, and how to organize our communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Setting the Scene

2. A Theory of Scenes

3. Quantitative Flânerie

4. Back to the Land, On to the Scene

5. Home, Home on the Scene

6. Scene Power

7. Making a Scene: How to Integrate the Scenescape into Public Policy Thinking

8. The Science of Scenes

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780226357041

022635704X

OCLC:

954734995