Faces and the City: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Facial Presence in Urban Space: Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
Autor Federico Bellentanien Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2026
The comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the facial presence in urban space, which it is used to analyse in depth urban faces and facial representation in public art, monuments, memorials as well as memorial practices, including digital ones.
This innovative volume will interest PhD students and scholars in semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, as well as those working in urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032735009
ISBN-10: 1032735007
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 68
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032735007
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 68
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
1. Introduction
Part one
2. Faces and facial presence in urban space: A literature review
3. A semiotic and cultural geographical framework for the study of facial presence in the urban space
4. A typology of facial presence of the city
Part two
5. Faces on the facades of Bologna, Italy: A semiotic inquiry into urban inscriptions
6. Sculpted faces: Face inscription in monuments and memorials
7. Facial practices: Faces in institutional and vernacular memorial practices
8. Digital Faces: The evolution of faces in digital memorial practices
9. Conclusions: Urban semiotics face to face
Index
Part one
2. Faces and facial presence in urban space: A literature review
3. A semiotic and cultural geographical framework for the study of facial presence in the urban space
4. A typology of facial presence of the city
Part two
5. Faces on the facades of Bologna, Italy: A semiotic inquiry into urban inscriptions
6. Sculpted faces: Face inscription in monuments and memorials
7. Facial practices: Faces in institutional and vernacular memorial practices
8. Digital Faces: The evolution of faces in digital memorial practices
9. Conclusions: Urban semiotics face to face
Index
Notă biografică
Federico Bellentani is a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy, within the ERC Consolidator Project FACETS (Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies).
Descriere
This book advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space. It will interest semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.