Wunderlich, F; (2014) Place-temporality and rhythmicity: a new aesthetics and methodological foundation for urban design theory and practice. In: Carmona, M, (ed.) Explorations in Urban Design: An Urban Design Research Primer. (pp. 59-76). Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, UK.

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The chapter critically examines urban design theory, and argues that if it aims to stay close to practice, and inspire and support novel responses to present-day spatial and social problems in cities, it needs to integrate three aspects: include a review and critique, reveal aesthetic preference(s) and disclose a methodological perspective. Focusing on the aspect of aesthetics, it furthermore states that urban design theory and practice are still dominated by a visual and motionless modernist aesthetics. This hinders methodological innovation, it is not in line with new interdisciplinary debate on everydaylife, performativity and the senses and the city, or with emerging new dimensions and objectives from within the urban design discipline, planning and social sustainability agendas, in particular, concerns with the acceleration of cities and quality of life. In response to this, it proposes an alternative temporal aesthetics, where the sense of time and the sensorial and affective rhythms of society, nature and physical space take central stage.

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