Dossier Presentation: "The city as an aesthetic space"

Abstract

(Excerpt from the Presentation).

This dossier brings together a series of articles that deal with different aspects of the relationships between aesthetics and urban life. These are valuable works, especially if one considers that in the field of social sciences, the concern for urban aesthetics is relatively recent. How does this concern emerge and why is it important to understand these relationships? In order to answer this question, at least in a preliminarily fashion, let's do some history...