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Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments

To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations? This book approaches experiences of urban aesthetics not as an established framework, defined by imposed norms or legislations, but as the result of a continuous reflexive and proactive gaze, a complex and deep engagement of the mind, body and sensibilities. It uses empirical studies ranging from China, India to Western Europe.

Three axes are privileged. The first considers urban everyday aesthetic experiences in the long-term as a historical production, from medieval Italy to a future imagined by science fiction. The second examines the impact of aestheticizing everyday material realities in neighbourhoods, and the tensions and conflicts these engender around urban commons. Finally, the third axis considers these relationships as aesthetic inequalities, exacerbated in a new age of urban development. The book combines local and transnational scales with an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together historians, sociologists, cultural geographers, anthropologists, architects and contemporary art curators. They illustrate the importance of combining different social science methods and functional perspectives to study such complex social and cultural realities as cities.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of humanities and social sciences, cultural and urban studies, architecture and political geography.

Arundhati Virmani (EHESS, Marseilles, France) is a specialist in colonial and contemporary Indian history.

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• Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
• Edited by Arundhati Virmani

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Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments

Edited by
Arundhati Virmani

• First published 2022
• by Routledge
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• British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
• A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

• Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
• Names: Virmani, Arundhati, editor.
  Title: Aesthetic perceptions of urban environments / edited by Arundhati Virmani.
  Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. |
  Series: Interventions |
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Identifiers: LCCN 2021020169 (print) | LCCN 2021020170 (ebook) |
  ISBN 9780367280802 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032060651 (paperback) |
  ISBN 9780429317750 (ebook)
  Subjects: LCSH: UrbanizationSocial aspects. | Urban ecology (Sociology) |
  Aesthetics. | City and town life. | Sociology, Urban.
  Classification: LCC HT153 .A3185 2022 (print) |
  LCC HT153 (ebook) | DDC 307.76dc23
  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020169
  LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020170

• ISBN: 978-0-367-28080-2 (hbk)
• ISBN: 978-1-03-206065-1 (pbk)
• ISBN: 978-0-429-31775-0 (ebk)

• DOI: 10.4324/9780429317750

• Typeset in Times New Roman
• by Newgen Publishing UK

Contents

1. Arundhati Virmani

1. 
   
   1. Paolo Pirillo
   2. Jean Boutier
   3. Gbor Gellri
   4. Alain Musset
2. 
   
   1. Surajit Sarkar
   2. Ccile Armand
   3. Anthony Pecqueux
   4. Arundhati Virmani
3. 
   
   1. Laurent Matthey and Rmi Baudou
   2. Gaurav RAJ Sharma
   3. Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky and Min Tang
   4. Interview with Giulia Ambrogi
4. Jean-Marc Besse

The editor

• Arundhati Virmani (EHESS, Marseilles) is a specialist in colonial and contemporary Indian history. Her work, since her PhD under the social historian Maurice Agulhon, reflects a cross-fertilization of perspectives, questions and approaches in the social sciences in Europe and Asia. Since her first publication on national symbolism in Past and Present (1999), she has extended her investigations of the historical, symbolic and political mechanisms and dynamics of nation building from colonial times to the present day. Her intellectual inquiries embrace reflections on how social scientists engage with the civic space. Some of her publications in French and English include: A National Flag for India. Rituals, Nationalism and the Politics of Sentiment, Delhi, Permanent Black 2008, 2nd ed. 2016; Atlas historique de lInde

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