Author Archives: Alexandra Gomes

Town Planner with a background in ‘Land Management Engineering’, and ‘Sociology and Development Planning’.
Currently an MPhil/PhD student at the Bartlett School of Planning, researching in urban design, public space, environmental perceptions and sensory geographies.

Re-thinking Bon Pastor

November 1, 2009 – 2:13 pm

In a yearning for urban modernization some European cities have been promoting processes of urban intervention and forgetting the existing ways of life and of use of those spaces. Processes of participatory democracy have been reduced to simple information/auscultation not allowing any kind of response to the needs of those who live (and sometime always [...]

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Sensing Cities II

October 6, 2009 – 11:55 pm

[REMEMBERANCE OF SMELLS PAST. A BBC World Service programme]
“How do smells impact on memories and emotions? Science is unraveling how a whiff of perfume or a newly mown lawn can offer us a free ticket back to our childhood.”

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Sensing Cities

July 8, 2009 – 12:00 pm

[SOUND ARCHITECTURE, A BBC World Service programme]

“Professor Trevor Cox, science broadcaster and acoustic engineer explores the idea of aural architecture – architecture for your ears.
Now, through new technology and a new way of thinking, acousticians and architects are working together to create spaces that both function better but also look good too.”

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