The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change

The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change
ISBN-10
135007084X
ISBN-13
9781350070844
Category
Art
Pages
193
Language
English
Published
2022-01-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Authors
Monica Montserrat Degen, Gillian Rose

Description

The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism. Both of these shifts entrain new sensory bodily experiences, and this digitally-mediated reconfiguration of what cities feel like is what this book terms the new urban aesthetic. Focussing on major case-studies of urban change from London to Doha, the book explores how different kinds of digital mediation play a central role in urban transformation, from smart city phone apps, to social media interactions, to computer-generated visualisations. The book reveals how different versions of the new urban aesthetic organize different sensory experiences of temporality and spatiality – leading to a new understanding of the way we experience cities today. The New Urban Aesthetic is essential reading for researchers and students in urban studies, architecture, digital studies, sociology, and human geography.

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