Urban Atmospheres: An Introduction

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Notes

¹ The photograph was shown in an article by James Nye entitled “China Starts Televising the Sunrise on Giant TV Screens because Beijing is so Clouded in Smog.” Daily Mail online (January 17, 2014). Available online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html (accessed April 18, 2014).

² Edward W. Soja, Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 11.

³ Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 23.

⁴ Peter Sloterdijk, The World In the Interior of Capital, trans. Wieland Hoban (Cambridge: Polity, [2005] 2013). 69.

⁵ Walter Benjamin, “Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” published in two versions, one in 1935, the other in 1939, in The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1999).

⁶ Sloterdijk, In the World Interior of Capital, 175.

⁷ Peter Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air, trans. Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), [2002] 2009), 84.

⁸ See Brian Elliott’s paper in this issue.

⁹ Ibid.

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Amy Catania Kulper

Amy Catania Kulper is an assistant professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, where she teaches theory and design. She is currently working on a book entitled Immanent Natures: The Laboratory as a Paradigm for Architecture’s Experimental Practices. Her work has been published in books such as Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (2009), Experiments: Architecture between Sciences and the Arts (2011), and Phenomenologies of the City (2015); and in journals including the Journal of Architecture, Candide and Field. She is currently design editor for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE).

Diana Periton

Diana Periton currently teaches in the School of Architecture at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her recent research focuses on the development of urbanism as a discipline in the early twentieth century; the research asks what urbanism’s various different practitioners understood a city to be. Published work includes essays in the Journal of Architecture, and in books such as The Intimate Metropolis (2009, which she co-edited), Reading Architecture and Culture (2012), and Economy and Architecture (2015).