Urban Places as Aesthetic Phenomena
Framework for a Place-Based Ontology of Urban Lifeworld
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8110359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vesa Vihanninjoki (0000-0003-0815-5130, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 461-470 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Topoi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1161-9473 • E-ISSN: 2496-7114 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11245-018-9601-1 |
| OpenAlex | W2908371321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Urban places are of central significance for cities both as built structures and as centers of everyday life. Due to the emergence of various design-led place-making policies and practices, “urban place” has largely become a marketed and branded product. Aesthetics plays a major role in this project of place-making, and the related interpretation of “commodified aesthetics of place” emphasizes certain experiential and qualitative place-attributes—such as authenticity—despite apparent conceptual confusions and controversies. A thorough reconsideration of central place-concepts is required to shed light on this problematic sphere. This article provides an alternative reading of urban places and the related aesthetic dimensions, based primarily on a Heideggerian account of human existence as placed being in the world. Such an approach emphasizes the decisive difference between an object-based and a contextual interpretation of place, providing also a framework for understanding the aesthetics of place and its fundamental lifeworld-constituting role anew
Aesthetics · Commodification · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Interpretation (philosophy · Lifeworld · Object (grammar · Ontology · Place identity · Reading (process · Sociology · Urban planning · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |