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The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality, to their image in people's minds, to advertising and to the way people respond to the place. Exploring the encounter with the aesthetics, images and material design of urban life, this book offers analytic insights into contemporary cities. It shows how photography, maps and videos play a crucial role in bringing aesthetic dimensions...

Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict, as places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles. Urban contexts are also ideal settings for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of socialization. While developing their identities, groups also create exclusive spaces and use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation among groups against the theoretical background of post-colonialism.