ABSTRACT
Chapter Five follows from the critique on the temporal crisis on the contemporary city and the need for the review of the intellectual and aesthetics foundations of urban design, to refocus on place dynamics and their everyday metabolism, regenerate sensoriality and performativity patterns, and introduce innovative performative place analysis and practices. In this context, it demands a turn in the way we approach and practice design to include temporality and rhythmicity in urban places, and begins by offering a manifesto towards Temporal Urban Design. It promotes a new approach to urban place design, one that privileges the senses, performativity, affect and meaning, through the perspective of time and rhythm. The chapter develops the argument for designing for temporal atmospheres, supported by philosophical and scientific discourses and the contemporary urban debates within social scientific research presented in earlier chapters. At its core, it sets out the theory and comprehensively explores a new temporal form of aesthetics for urban place design, integral to Temporal Urban Design. As part of this it offers the conceptual tools and terminology, namely that of place-temporality and its four aesthetic attributes: a vivid and distorted sense of time; a sense of flow; a vivid soundscape; and place rhythmicity, which assist the understanding processes of temporal analysis and design practice explored in the following chapters.
