List of figures List of tables Introduction Chapter 1: The need for a paradigm shift Why the sense of time and rhythm is important for design The problem of our cities: new conditions and challenges The problem with growth-led development The problem with design: obsolete aesthetics hinder innovation The intermittent loss of temporality with Covid19 Ways forward: an intellectual and aesthetical review A doughnut spatial economy: an alternative model Temporal Urban Design: an alternative aesthetic Cultural and social place-temporalities as temporal heritage to design for The need for methodological innovation and interdisciplinarity The need for a paradigm shift Chapter 2: Time and temporality in urban design Incorporating time in urban design studies Planning cities and time Governing and delivering through time Mapping through time: time-geography and urban mobility studies Managing through time: planning for slowing time in the city Taking stock of urban design research on time The significance of senses of time in urban design Conclusion Chapter 3: Time and temporality in philosophy and in science Time or temporality: early conundrums in philosophy and science The first temporal conundrums: origins of the Western discourses The dialectics on time: Aristotle and Plato The early Christian times The dialectic in the Middle Ages: presentism or eternalism The progressive and instrumental times of the Middle Ages Eternalism or Presentism: early to late modern physics Eternalism: the absolute time Presentism: the crumbling of time Quantum time: on spacetime, time and rhythm The time of the mind, experiential or relational time Critical debates on the experience of urban time: Bergson and Bachelard Time as duration: intuition and memory, and its distortion in space, by Bergson Time as discontinuous and creative, by Bachelard Duration, temporality and rhythm Temporality: as concrete duration and refrain, by Bergson Temporality: as created by rhythms, by Bachelard Listening to rhythms to understand temporal existence Temporality: phenomenological time, rhythm, rhythmanalysis, assemblage, refrain and territoriality Temporality: as the phenomenological time Distaff theories of time and temporality: Deleuze and Lefebvre Conclusion Chapter 4: The urban temporal condition: understanding rhythm in urban space Time constructs in society and space Temporality as a sense or as a process? Time, rhythm and urban space Temporality as a sense: experiential and representational time Temporality as a process time through the rhythms of everyday life Rhythm, refrain and territoriality The coincident accent on rhythm to express time in space Towards the territorialisation of time: paradigm shifts in urban critical theory Place as temporal: sense of time, sense of place or atmosphere? Chapter 5: Temporal Urban Design: situating the theory The case for a turn towards Temporal Urban Design Manifesto (Thoughts on cities/notes to the urban designer) What defines Temporal Urban Design? A new temporal aesthetics for urban place design The aesthetics of place-temporality Conclusion: Place-temporality and the principal aspects of its aesthetics and experience in urban space Chapter 6: An aesthetics akin to music: a new temporal aesthetics for urban place design Music in urban environment research Music, place-temporality and rhythm: experiencing, performing and listening The experience Performing: choreography and resonance Listening The conceptual tools Three musical processes: rhythm, performance and tonality (or tonal organisation) Rhythm (as in music) Rhythm in urban space The temporal aesthetics of places: eurythmia, performativity and tonality as in a place-score Conclusion Chapter 7: Temporal Urban Design: situating research practice Temporal Urban Design: interdisciplinarity and inherent intellectual foundations Place-rhythmanalysis: a methodology for temporal urban place design Researching the temporality and rhythmicity of urban landscapes Rhythmanalysis in urban studies The focus on place-rhythmanalysis Place-rhythmanalysis: ethnography into the temporal phenomenology of places Working as a place-rhythmanalyst Listening to urban place as a musician in urban places The process: the fieldwork The process: the analysis Conclusion Chapter 8: A place-rhythmanalysis: the singular rhythms and temporality of Fitzroy Square At Fitzroy Square An everyday place Architecture and public space design Nature at the square Everyday social and cultural profile A residential and communal square A multicultural place An events place A working and institutionally representative square An exceptional private-public garden square Location and relationship to the wider neighbourhood A particular sense of time, or tempo and the aesthetic significance Spatial expression of place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square Social place-rhythms: societal, cultural and functional At Fitzroy Square Physical place-rhythms Natural place-rhythms Temporal expression of place-rhythms: an horizontal place-rhythmanalysis Principles for temporal horizontal place-rhythmanalysis An horizontal temporal rhythmanalysis of social place-rhythms at Fitzroy Square Physical and natural place-rhythms rhythmanalysis Temporal expression of place-rhythms: a vertical place-rhythmanalysis Principles for the temporal vertical analysis Eurythmia at Fitzroy Square: One day performative narratives A place-score on the temporal rhythmic aesthetics of place: a representation and interpretation tool for urban designers The rhythmic DNA of one day at Fitzroy Square: intensity and accentuation barcodes Summary Chapter 9: Temporal urban design: Situating practice (epilogue) Introduction Framing the realm of practice Temporary, Acupuncture and Tactical Urbanism Participatory Data Urbanism Sensorial and Performative Urbanism Practising Temporal Urban Design: framing action A collaborative route to methodological innovation Tactical interventionism Craft and craftsmanship in the temporal design of the city Craftsmanship in urban place-rhythmanalysis Collective urban craftmanship processes in places co-production Designing for the Slow and Soft City Conclusion References Index.