Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manches

Sensing Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public space and life through the prism of the senses. The book explores how the increased stylization of cityscapes requires an understanding of public life as a spatial-sensous encounter. Degen examines how power relations in public spaces are embedded in, exercised and resisted through the sensous geography of place. This sensory paradigm is then applied to compare two emblematic regeneration projects, namely El Raval in Barcelona and Castlefield in Manchester.