Sensing cities
Subtitle: regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester
By: by Monica Montserrat Degen.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415397995; 9780203895511
Subjects: Urban renewal -- Spain -- Barcelona; Sociology, Urban -- Spain -- Barcelona; Urban renewal -- England -- Manchester; Sociology, Urban -- England -- Manchester
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sensing cities; title: Urban redevelopment, the senses and public life; title: Researching the senses; title: Overview of the book; title: Public life in late modernity; title: Space as social process; title: Sensing publicness; title: A new urban aesthetic; title: Commercial privatisation and fortification of urban space; title: Sensing the city; title: Towards a "socially embedded aesthetics"; title: The city of senses; title: Place gestures; title: Methodological discussion: rhythmanalysis; title: Sensuous powers; title: Flows of power; title: Control through pleasure; title: Domination and resistance; title: Sensuous planning ideologies; title: Castlefield and El Raval; title: A sensuous history; title: Castlefield: from industrial revolution to inner city cool; title: El Raval: from "Barrio Chino" to cultural quarter; title: Planning regeneration; title: The spatialization of regeneration; title: Formalising public life in Castlefield; title: Diluting public life in El Raval; title: Perceptions from "down below"; title: Castlefield: exclusive public spaces; title: El Raval: invisible public spaces; title: Castlefield: promoting selective histories; title: El Raval: disrupting social life; title: Living in regenerated worlds; title: Rhythms of everyday life; title: Sensuous mappings; title: Castlefield's "taste wars"; title: El Raval's "place wars"; title: Conclusion: regenerating public life?; title: Bibliography.