Law, Sensory Experience and Urban Space

Auteur

Rebecca Goodbourn

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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