%0 Journal Article
%T Derives and Social Aesthetics in the Cities: Urban Marks in El Raval de Barcelona, Spain
%A Mar¨ªa Gisela Escobar
%J Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
%D 2009
%I Guild of Independent Scholars
%X Tensions between hegemonic conception of the cities versuseveryday perspective motivated me to propose two metaphorical andconceptual level of approaching to the urban phenomena: a.) ZenithalView as a metaphor of power practices in contemporary cities thatrepresent a dissociated reality of the subject who knows and lives,regardless of the geographical or corporal proximity of human beings,and b.) Impure view that metaphorically subverts the idea thatinhabitants¡¯ look at the cities from the distant perspective of the observer because our life in the cities does perform, participate, incarnate and relational. Following the second approach, in this research I intent to recover the urban practice of derives as aesthetic interposition to public space and as a methodological resource to figure out the tensions between zenithal and impure view in the neighbourhood of El Raval of Barcelona through the language of its visual urban marks.
%K Social Aesthetics
%K Urban Sociology
%K Derives
%K Spain
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