Urban Aesthetics

The monographic section presents an overview of the current state of urban aesthetics (A. Borsari) and aims to contribute to the reflection on its issues and problems, focusing on, respectively: some aesthetic categories of urban experience, such as «atmospheres», «rhythms», «ruins», «terrain vague», «cityscape» (N. Fonseca); some of the different forms of contemporary art and how they affect the overall urban aesthetic and experiential dimension (S. Lehtinen); how it is possible to write about urban experience by taking a cue from Georges Perec’s case analysis of a Parisian place (H. Reeh); the explanatory effectiveness of the philosophical direction of somaesthetics with respect to urban phenomena through a dialogue with its founder Richard Shusterman (A. Alison, A. Borsari)