City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape

The analysis of the sensible aspects of public life, or, in other words, Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, has an enormous heuristic potential for the study of cities and their images. This text argues that city images are also made of sounds and that urban sounds can reveal not only urban evolution,...

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Main Author:	Carlos Fortuna
Format:	Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Universidad de Buenos Aires 2009-07-01
Series:	Cuadernos de Antropología Social
Subjects:	Ciudad Paisaje Imagen Sonido Ciencias Sociales
Online Access:	http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/2775

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spelling	doaj-ce02adadf418488eae52036e42934f0a2020-11-24T20:55:20ZspaUniversidad de Buenos AiresCuadernos de Antropología Social0327-37761850-275X2009-07-0103039582332City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscapeCarlos Fortuna0Universidad de CoimbraThe analysis of the sensible aspects of public life, or, in other words, Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, has an enormous heuristic potential for the study of cities and their images. This text argues that city images are also made of sounds and that urban sounds can reveal not only urban evolution, but also the current mode of organization of the social environments of cities. However, the Social Sciences have not dealt consistently with these sounds. Making inroads into Sociology and Geography, this text defends the need to pay more attention to the urban soundscapes, in order to detect with more rigor their social-political trajectories and configurations.http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/2775CiudadPaisajeImagenSonidoCiencias Sociales
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title	City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape
title_short	City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape
title_full	City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape
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description	The analysis of the sensible aspects of public life, or, in other words, Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, has an enormous heuristic potential for the study of cities and their images. This text argues that city images are also made of sounds and that urban sounds can reveal not only urban evolution, but also the current mode of organization of the social environments of cities. However, the Social Sciences have not dealt consistently with these sounds. Making inroads into Sociology and Geography, this text defends the need to pay more attention to the urban soundscapes, in order to detect with more rigor their social-political trajectories and configurations.
topic	Ciudad Paisaje Imagen Sonido Ciencias Sociales
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City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape

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