Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1: Introducing the New Urban Aesthetic
1. Setting the scene
2. The urban: materialities and imaginaries
3. The aesthetic: sensations and staging
4. The digital: devices and data
5. Differentiation and power relations
6. Case studies, methods and evidence
7. Conclusion

2: The New Urban Aesthetic: A Conceptual Framework
1. Introduction
2. Branding cities, shaping experiences
3. Urban experiencing and digital mediations
4. Aesthetics: produced, conceived, perceived, lived
5. The new urban aesthetic, difference and power
6. Conclusion

3: The Conceived Aesthetics of Urban Redevelopment: The Case of Msheireb Downtown, Qatar
(co-authored with Clare Melhuish)
1. Introduction
2. The case study: introducing Msheireb Downtown
3. Spatialising urban glamour: 'something one wants on the cover of a magazine'
4. The temporalities of urban glamour: 'the key to the image is that you are telling a story'
5. The conceived new urban aesthetic: when glamour goes wrong
6. Conclusion: texturising glamour

4: The Perceived Aesthetics Of Digital Urbanism: Feeling Digital Embodiment In Smart Milton Keynes
1. Introduction
2. The case study: Milton Keynes, smart city
3. Conceiving smart cities: storytelling about smart MK
4. Perceiving the new urban aesthetic in a smart city: the flow of bodies and/as data
5. Appified sensations in smart MK
6. Perceiving the new urban aesthetic of flow, again
7. Conclusion: texturising flow

5: The Lived Aesthetic of Urban Social Media: Anticipating the Culture Mile's Future
1. Introduction
2. The case study: The Culture Mile, Smithfield Market and anticipatory urbanism
3. Instagram as an expressive infrastructure for branding
4. Dramatising the Culture Mile: the Culture Mile branding strategy on Instagram
5. The lived experiencing of Smithfield with Instagram
6. Conclusion: texturizing drama

6: The New Urban Aesthetic and its Power
1. Introduction
2. Power and the new urban aesthetic: differentiating and distributing
3. Storytelling and the new urban aesthetic
4. Animating the new urban aesthetic
5. Seamfulness: seeing aesthetic labour
6. Conclusion

7: Conclusion: The Differentiation and Potentialities of the New Urban Aesthetic
1. Introduction
2. The new urban aesthetic: reprise
3. The limits of the new urban aesthetic
4. Other new aesthetics of cities
5. Afterword

References
Index