Faces and the City

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Facial Presence in Urban Space
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-73500-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies

Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space.

The comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the facial presence in urban space, which it is used to analyse in depth urban faces and facial representation in public art, monuments, memorials as well as memorial practices, including digital ones.

This innovative volume will interest PhD students and scholars in semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, as well as those working in urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellentani, Federico

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part one

2. Faces and facial presence in urban space: A literature review

3. A semiotic and cultural geographical framework for the study of facial presence in the urban space

4. A typology of facial presence of the city

Part two

5. Faces on the facades of Bologna, Italy: A semiotic inquiry into urban inscriptions

6. Sculpted faces: Face inscription in monuments and memorials

7. Facial practices: Faces in institutional and vernacular memorial practices

8. Digital Faces: The evolution of faces in digital memorial practices

9. Conclusions: Urban semiotics face to face

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Bellentani is a Post-doc Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy, within the ERC Consolidator Project FACETS (Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies).