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标题：Derives and Social Aesthetics in the Cities: Urban Marks in El Raval de Barcelona, Spain
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作者：María Gisela Escobar
期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：136-151
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Tensions between hegemonic conception of the cities versus everyday perspective motivated me to propose two metaphorical and conceptual level of approaching to the urban phenomena: a.) Zenithal View as a metaphor of power practices in contemporary cities that represent 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 that inhabitants' 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