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Title:

Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / edited by Lars Frers and Lars Meier.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Frers, Lars.
Meier, Lars.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Re-materialising cultural geography

ISBN:

9780754649298 (alk. paper)
0754649296 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70251146

LCCN:

2006021151

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)