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Introduction
Chapter 1: The need for a paradigm shift
Why the sense of time and rhythm is important for design
The problem of our cities: new conditions and challenges
The problem with growth-led development
The problem with design: obsolete aesthetics hinder innovation
The intermittent loss of temporality with Covid19
Ways forward: an intellectual and aesthetical review
A doughnut spatial economy: an alternative model
Temporal Urban Design: an alternative aesthetic
Cultural and social place-temporalities as temporal heritage to design for
The need for methodological innovation and interdisciplinarity
The need for a paradigm shift
Chapter 2: Time and temporality in urban design
Incorporating time in urban design studies
Planning cities and time
Governing and delivering through time
Mapping through time: time-geography and urban mobility studies
Managing through time: planning for slowing time in the city
Taking stock of urban design research on time
The significance of senses of time in urban design
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Time and temporality in philosophy and in science
Time or temporality: early conundrums in philosophy and science
The first temporal conundrums: origins of the Western discourses
The dialectics on time: Aristotle and Plato
The early Christian times
The dialectic in the Middle Ages: presentism or eternalism
The progressive and instrumental times of the Middle Ages
Eternalism or Presentism: early to late modern physics
Eternalism: the absolute time
Presentism: the crumbling of time
Quantum time: on spacetime, time and rhythm
The time of the mind, experiential or relational time
Critical debates on the experience of urban time: Bergson and Bachelard
Time as duration: intuition and memory, and its distortion in space, by Bergson
Time as discontinuous and creative, by Bachelard
Duration, temporality and rhythm
Temporality: as concrete duration and refrain, by Bergson
Temporality: as created by rhythms, by Bachelard
Listening to rhythms to understand temporal existence
Temporality: phenomenological time, rhythm, rhythmanalysis, assemblage, refrain and territoriality
Temporality: as the phenomenological time
Distaff theories of time and temporality: Deleuze and Lefebvre
Conclusion
Chapter 4: The urban temporal condition: understanding rhythm in urban space
Time constructs in society and space
Temporality as a sense or as a process? Time, rhythm and urban space
Temporality as a sense: experiential and representational time
Temporality as a process time through the rhythms of everyday life
Rhythm, refrain and territoriality
The coincident accent on rhythm to express time in space
Towards the territorialisation of time: paradigm shifts in urban critical theory
Place as temporal: sense of time, sense of place or atmosphere?
Chapter 5: Temporal Urban Design: situating the theory
The case for a turn towards Temporal Urban Design
Manifesto (Thoughts on cities/notes to the urban designer)
What defines Temporal Urban Design?
A new temporal aesthetics for urban place design
The aesthetics of place-temporality
Conclusion: Place-temporality and the principal aspects of its aesthetics and experience in urban space
Chapter 6: An aesthetics akin to music: a new temporal aesthetics for urban place design
Music in urban environment research
Music, place-temporality and rhythm: experiencing, performing and listening
The experience
Performing: choreography and resonance
Listening
The conceptual tools
Three musical processes: rhythm, performance and tonality (or tonal organisation)
Rhythm (as in music)
Rhythm in urban space
The temporal aesthetics of places: eurythmia, performativity and tonality as in a place-score
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Temporal Urban Design: situating research practice
Temporal Urban Design: interdisciplinarity and inherent intellectual foundations
Place-rhythmanalysis: a methodology for temporal urban place design
Researching the temporality and rhythmicity of urban landscapes
Rhythmanalysis in urban studies
The focus on place-rhythmanalysis
Place-rhythmanalysis: ethnography into the temporal phenomenology of places
Working as a place-rhythmanalyst
Listening to urban place as a musician in urban places
The process: the fieldwork
The process: the analysis
Conclusion
Chapter 8: A place-rhythmanalysis: the singular rhythms and temporality of Fitzroy Square
At Fitzroy Square
An everyday place
Architecture and public space design
Nature at the square
Everyday social and cultural profile
A residential and communal square
A multicultural place
An events place
A working and institutionally representative square
An exceptional private-public garden square
Location and relationship to the wider neighbourhood
A particular sense of time, or tempo and the aesthetic significance
Spatial expression of place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square
Social place-rhythms: societal, cultural and functional
At Fitzroy Square
Physical place-rhythms
Natural place-rhythms
Temporal expression of place-rhythms: an horizontal place-rhythmanalysis
Principles for temporal horizontal place-rhythmanalysis
An horizontal temporal rhythmanalysis of social place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square
Physical and natural place-rhythms rhythmanalysis
Temporal expression of place-rhythms: a vertical place-rhythmanalysis
Principles for the temporal vertical analysis
Eurythmia at Fitzroy Square: One day performative narratives
A place-score on the temporal rhythmic aesthetics of place: a representation and interpretation tool for urban designers
The rhythmic DNA of one day at Fitzroy Square: intensity and accentuation barcodes
Summary
Chapter 9: Temporal urban design: Situating practice (epilogue)
Introduction
Framing the realm of practice
Temporary, Acupuncture and Tactical Urbanism
Participatory Data Urbanism
Sensorial and Performative Urbanism
Practising Temporal Urban Design: framing action
A collaborative route to methodological innovation
Tactical interventionism
Craft and craftsmanship in the temporal design of the city
Craftsmanship in urban place-rhythmanalysis
Collective urban craftmanship processes in places co-production
Designing for the Slow and Soft City
Conclusion
References
Index
