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Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Architecture; Walter Benjamin; city; cognitive science; ecological system; embodied cognition; everyday aesthetics; flâneur; Immanuel Kant; kinaesthetics; subjectivity
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Urban Kinesthetics, Tea Lobo Ph.D.
Urban Kinesthetics, Tea Lobo Ph.D.
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The question how a city can be an aesthetic object or a beautiful object can be posed in a more fundamental manner: how a city can be perceived in the first place. By city, I mean both a built environment and its less tangible social and political reality, such as hierarchies, interactions, and alliances. A city is never perceived, in this sense, as a whole but only as snippets of buildings, the smell of pollution, and so on. Therefore, it is not accidental that urban aesthetics have traditionally been associated with the figure of the flâneur, a leisurely stroller through …