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Author:   Joe Blakey (Professor at University of Manchester) ,  Amy Barron (Professor at University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781032372358

ISBN 10:   1032372354
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   25 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface - Joe Blakey and Amy Barron; 1. Introduction: Making Sense of the City - Joe Blakey and Amy Barron; 2. Perspectives from Philosophical and Applied Urban Aesthetics - Sanna Lehtinen; 3. Urban Aesthetics and Power: Branding Sensory Conviviality in London and Barcelona - Mónica Degen and Beatriz Guijarro Turégano; 4. Aesthetics as Sensory Experience and the Embodied Practice of Bicycle Delivery Work - Josh Widera; 5. Writing the City Clean: Sketching Conflictual Aesthetics of Street Art in Linz, Austria - Friederike Landau-Donnelly and Stefanie Fridrik; 6. The Post-Race City: Borders, Freedom, and Imagination - Günter Gassner; 7. The Walls of Berlin & Cairo: A Spatial Mnemonic Model - Taher Abdel-Ghani, Yara Mohamed and Amr Ibrahim; 8. Rancière, Aesthetics and the Politics of the City-Scale - Joe Blakey; 9. Cities and The Sixth Sense: The Aesthetics of Experimental Urbanisms - Julian Brigstocke; 10. Sensing the ‘Public’ in Public Wall Art in Bangalore - Salila Vanka; 11. Conclusion: What Next? Future Directions for Aesthetics and the City - Amy Barron and Joe Blakey; Index

Reviews

Aesthetics and the City provides an insightful and rich set of contributions into how to make sense of urban worlds. Through its eleven chapters, the edited book makes the case for a sensory approach to the studying of the production of cities. It is a lovely addition to the field of urban studies. - Professor Kevin Ward, The University of Manchester, UK Aesthetics and the City teaches us that making sense of and reimagining cities requires understanding their aesthetic dimension. It is highly recommended for all urban scholars and professionals who want to explore how aesthetics intersects with urban life, influencing design visions, everyday experiences, and the broader conceptualisation of cities. - Andrea Borsari PhD, Professor of Aesthetics, The University of Bologna, Italy

Author Information

Joe Blakey is a Political Geographer at the University of Manchester, UK, interested in conceptualising and understanding political change, aesthetics, and environmental knowledge politics. His research is driven by the need to understand the depoliticisation of marginalised voices and perspectives, and how knowledge about the environment is produced, contested, and mobilised in response to the global climate and ecological crises. Amy Barron is a Social and Cultural Geographer at the University of Manchester, UK, interested in the lived experience of urban differences, inequalities, and social categories. These themes are often explored through the lenses of age, ageing, and the life-course.

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