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Place-temporality and urban place-rhythms in urban analysis and design: an aesthetic akin to music

Wunderlich, F; (2013) Place-temporality and urban place-rhythms in urban analysis and design: an aesthetic akin to music. Journal of Urban Design , 18 (3) pp. 383-408. 10.1080/13574809.2013.772882. Green open access

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Abstract

Places are temporal milieus and the tempo of a place is inherently rhythmical. In an urban place, patterns of people movements, encounters, and rest, recurrently negotiating with natural cycles and architectural patterns, merge into expressive bundles of rhythms, which give a place its temporal distinctiveness. This paper investigates the aesthetics of place-temporality, focusing on its expression and representation; it explores its principal attributes, experience and significance. And, building on an analogy with musical aesthetics, the paper brings forward a conceptual framework for the understanding and analysis of temporality in urban space, with a focus on place-rhythms and the triad of place-temporal performance, place-tonality and a sense of time. These are the principal aesthetic processes through which place-temporality expresses and represents itself in urban space.

Type: Article
Title: Place-temporality and urban place-rhythms in urban analysis and design: an aesthetic akin to music
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2013.772882
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2013.772882
Additional information: © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1360918
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