Law, Sensory Experience and Urban Space - The Making of the Regular City

As many western countries are increasing their legal regulation and surveillance of public spaces, this book offers new ways of thinking about and addressing urban inhabitation, by showing how particular understandings of the world become entrenched through physical and sensory experience.

List of contents

Introduction
PART 1: EXPERIENCE AND POTENTIAL
Question: What is experience?
Chapter 1: The nature of laneways
Chapter 2: The matter of waste
Response: Experience is the present potential of excess
PART 2: OFF THE MAP
Question: What does it do to promote spaces 'off the map' as an escape?
Chapter 3: Lose yourself
Chapter 4: The cut
Response: The grid-the map-becomes the assumed norm
PART 3: THE EXPERIENCE OF ADDRESS
Question: How can we create an open address?
Chapter 5: Facing bodies
Chapter 6: Seats of inhabitation
Response: By inhabiting with others
Conclusion

About the author

Rebecca Goodbourn

Summary

As many western countries are increasing their legal regulation and surveillance of public spaces, this book offers new ways of thinking about and addressing urban inhabitation, by showing how particular understandings of the world become entrenched through physical and sensory experience.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Goodbourn, Goodbourn Rebecca
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2018, delayed
• EAN: 9781138636903
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63690-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, LAW / General, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Property, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Human Geography