Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / edited by Lars Frers and Lars Meier. - xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Re-materialising cultural geography . - Re-materialising cultural geography. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / Lars Frers and Lars Meier -- Urban aesthetics and the excess of fact / Helen Liggett -- Perception, aesthetics, and envelopment : encountering space and materiality / Lars Frers -- Eye-catchers. Staging the sociosexual : the example of prostitution / Martina Löw -- Urban spaces re-defined in daily practices : 'Minibar', Ankara / Deniz Altay -- An uncommon common space / Zeuler R. M. A. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin -- Seeing succession in Little and Big Italy : encountering ethnic vernacular landscapes / Jerome Krase -- Working in the skyline : images and everyday action / Lars Meier -- Simulation or hospitality : beyond the crisis of representation in Nowa Huta / Łukasz Stanek -- Sensing place : mobile and wireless technologies in urban space / Katharine S. Willis -- Working with the visual / Lars Frers and Lars Meier.

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Cities and towns--Study and teaching
Public spaces--Social aspects
Spatial behavior.
Group identity
Aesthetics

HT109 / .E53 2007

307.76