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Whybrow, Nicolas (2020) Ring cycle. In: Urban sensographies. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9780367406714

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The material handled in this chapter is based on a series of repeated durational encounters on foot with selected urban sites in the city centre of Coventry. Methodologically these ‘performed walks’, conducted solo as psycho-geographical ‘drifts’, sought, first, to be self-consciously attentive to impressions triggered for the sensitised body by those locales in terms of the ‘atmospheres’ they conjured. Second, the working process set out to record these initial ‘site soundings’, indulging associative, conjectural flights of fancy arising from them which included integrating them into a developing body of knowledge relating to urban and performance theory as well as the extant culture and history of Coventry as a city. As the chapter shows, the fieldwork focused largely on the four-lane (clockwise and anti-clockwise) inner ring-road that has encircled the city centre since its phased construction in the wake of the devastation wreaked by World War II. The undulating, 2.5-mile-long ring-road proved to be an unwieldy, domineering superstructure, whose sheer scale and presence are disproportionate within the context of a centre that can be crossed in ten minutes on foot. It now stands as a crumbling, propped-up testament to a misconceived 20th-century fantasy of the private car as the solution to mobility in small cities, if not the solution to people’s lives per se.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Public art -- Political aspects -- England -- Coventry, Urban renewal -- England -- Coventry -- History -- 20th century, Beltways -- England -- Coventry, Modern movement (Architecture) -- England -- Coventry
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York
ISBN: 9780367406714
Book Title: Urban sensographies
Official Date: 31 December 2020
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31 December 2020Published
4 August 2020Accepted
Number of Pages: 189
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Urban sensographies on December 31, 2020, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Sensographies/Whybrow/p/book/9780367406714
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