Cities and Fascination : Beyond the Surplus of Meaning.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1 Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning -- Part I: Revealing Fascination: Theoretical Horizons -- 2 The Urban Question after Modernity -- 3 The City is Back (in Our Minds) -- 4 Emotions in an Urban Environment: Embellishing the Cities from the Perspective of the Humanities -- 5 Aesthetics and Design: Perceptions in the Postmodern Periphery -- Part II: Focusing Fascination: Crossing Theoretical and Empirical Perpectives -- 6 'The Most Dangerous Knack': Fetish and Fascination in the Built Environment -- 7 The Urban Staging of Politics: Life Worlds, Aesthetics, and Planning - and an Example from Brazil -- Part III: Implementing Fascination: Case Studies -- 8 From Dreamland to Wasteland: The Discursive Structuring of Cities -- 9 Re-designing the Metropolis: Purpose and Perception of the Ruhr District as European Capital of Culture 2010 -- 10 Strategic Staging of Urbanity: Urban Images in Films and Film Images in Hamburg's City Marketing -- 11 'Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics': Consumer Pedagogy in Macao -- Part IV: Consequences of Fascination: New Horizons -- 12 Excess, Fascination and Climates -- Index.