New release: The Re-Use of Urban Ruins. By Hanna Katharina Göbel
2. March 2015
Atmospheric Inquiries of the City
London, New York: Routledge 2015
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How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry. (publisher)
Dr. Hanna Katharina Göbel is a cultural sociologist and works as a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Human Movement Science/Performance Studies at Universität Hamburg. between 2008 and 2012, she was member of the Ph.D. program “Cultures of Time” within the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration”. This book is her Ph.D. thesis.