Order atarax, Aside from my comments to Suzi’s post, here are some other themes that seemed to emerge in the discussions of our papers:
1) The distinction between choreographed and unchoreographed experiences of the city (to use Richard’s wording), or ordered and disordered experiences, but also the exploration of the interstices between the two (art projects in public space, for example). Moreover, aldactone Prescription, Cheap diamox, the ways (gentrification, city-branding, claritin No Rr, Anafranil No Rr, tourism, etc.) in which disordered or marginal experiences have the potential of becoming choreographed or ordered at any point in time seem to me particularly relevant and powerful nowadays.
2) The issue of navigating through everyday urban life in poli-cultural and/or violent cities. Is it possible to identify any social skills/mechanisms that facilitate this?
3) The impact of particular urban forms on everyday practices — from walls to malls!.
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… and even some more themes..
Dear all,
Thanks for all the useful comments. Scanning through the list of papers, I it does seem a significant challenge to identify an overarching structure for the very diverse range of contributions. I agree that ‘metaphor’ may be a linking theme for a number of papers + I like Olivia’s suggestions about possible categories.
Suzi’s ‘who decides’, ‘who participates’ and ‘who imagines’ sound very coherent- i can quite see those in print!
Other, perhaps dumber themes to link papers might be: scale, boundary, memory, change, vision. These terms, whilst not perfect, begin to encompass the different ways in which we each spoke about relationships between the physical structure of the city (its impacts, etc), urban dynamics (including process and participation) and human perception/ experience (including imagination, metaphor, etc).
In fact, come to think of it, the set of categories, in these terms, could as well be structures, dynamics and experiences….
In terms of organisation, I thought the suggestion to have a US/ UK editorial panel of 4-6 people sounded like a good idea….