Autore: Fonseca, Nuno
Titolo: On Some Aesthetic Categories of Urban Experience: Surveying Conceptual Tools for an Aesthetics of the City
Periodico: Iride
Anno: 2024 - Volume: 102/103 - Fascicolo: 2/3 - Pagina iniziale: 347 - Pagina finale: 359

Urban aesthetics as a sub-discipline of philosophical aesthetics is – surprisingly – still in its infancy and, despite the rapidly growing number of philosophers and publications devoted to its various themes in recent years, still requires a more systematic and refined approach. To be fair, the genetic hybridity of urban aesthetics – a cross between environmental and everyday aesthetics – as well as the pluralist methodology and interdisciplinary character of most contemporary approaches, challenge any attempt to systematise the field. This article will, nevertheless, be a modest contribution at critically surveying relevant aesthetic categories of urban experience that could be laid out for future developments within the framework of urban aesthetics. Keeping in mind the dynamic and processual (spatio-temporal) nature of a city, I will refer to and analyse some aesthetic concepts that seem to be promising and relevant tools for better understanding the perceptual, affective and symbolic interactions between an aesthetic agent and the urban environment. They are by no means an exhaustive list: atmospheres (a phenomenological concept that allows for an understanding of the affective tonality of spaces, situations or events); rhythms (an analytical tool for assessing the dynamics of spatial, temporal and energetic urban flows): ruins (a category of historicity, ephemerality and the mysterious endurance of built environments); "terrain vague" (a critical concept of the vagrant possibilities and openness of empty spaces); and cityscape (here revised in a multisensory, multi-layered and symbolic comprehensiveness).




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