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- ISBN 9781350070837
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023
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.
Mónica Montserrat Degen is Reader in Cultural Sociology at Brunel University London, UK.
Gillian Rose is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, UK.
