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- Title
Del viajero al turista: estética y política del paisaje urbano.
- Authors
TORREGROZA LARA, ENVER JOEL
- Abstract
The aim of this essay is to promote thought on urban landscapes that go further than the concept of natural landscapes and than the notion of a landscape as an object of pictorial representation. Thanks to an initial digression of the esthetics of impurity proposed by Mathieu Kessler, the traveler's and tourist's way of being are described: two of the possible landscape's perceptive focuses that imply, each in their own way, a particular disposition towards joy in the geographical area. Such ethical-esthetic description is widened to cover, the "urban city dweller" or the "citizen's" ways of being and transiting the contemporary city within its complicities, pressures and paradoxes; thus defending the idea that the excess city which ontologically constitutes the contemporary metropolis is in part compensated --happiness in unhappiness-- with the ethical-esthetic disposition of the temporary urban resident.
- Subjects
URBAN tourism; LANDSCAPES; CITIES &; towns; AESTHETICS; CITY dwellers; METROPOLIS
- Publication
Desafíos, 2008, Vol 19, p71
- ISSN
0124-4035
- Publication type
Article