New Publication: Daily Notes 3 – The skin of the city

The book ‘The Skin of the City’, edited by Helena Pires and Zara Pinto-Coelho, has just been published. It is part of the ‘Daily Notes’ collection and is the third volume in this series.

According to the publishers, this collection brings together ‘a set of micro-essays, written by researchers and professionals from different disciplinary and institutional backgrounds, which form part of the collection of original texts produced as part of the Passeio project.’

‘The metaphor of the city’s skin encourages us to experience and understand the urban environment in a more personal and intimate way and can be a way of transforming spaces into meaningful places. Thinking about the city and its surfaces through the metaphor of skin invites us to (re)imagine our relationship with the city, to be aware of the synaesthetic dimension of the urban environment, to appreciate the textures, colours and patterns that make up the skin of the city and its permanent mutation. As inhabitants of the city, we are inevitably in contact with its skin. We can live it, touch it, feel it, but, like the lines of a hand, we can also examine, read and interpret it,’ they add.