Visualizations of Urban Space

<p>This book explores environments where art imagination and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations aesthetics and politics in the context of new technologies and social and urban challenges toward the Sustainable Development Goals.</p><p>Responding to questions stemming from critical theory the book focuses on an interdisciplinary actualization of technological developments and social challenges. It demonstrates how art architecture and design can transform culture society and nature through artistic and cultural achievements integration and new developments. The book begins with the theoretical framework of social aesthetics theories before discussing global contemporary visual culture and technological evolution. Across the 12 chapters it looks at how architecture and design play significant roles in causing and solving complex environmental transformations in the digital turn. By fostering transdisciplinary encounters between architecture design visual arts and cinematography this book presents different theoretical approaches to how the arts’ interplay with the environment responds to the logic of the constructions of reality.</p><p>This book will appeal to scholars researchers and upper-level students in aesthetics philosophy visual cultural studies communication studies and media studies with a particular interest in sociopolitical and environmental discussions.</p>