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Sensing cities : regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester
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Sensing cities : regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester

Monica Montserrat Degen

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

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Sensing cities : regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester by Monica Montserrat Degen. ISBN 9780415397995. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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