This paper begins by reviewing a range of recent work by geographers conceptualising buildings less as solid objects and more as performances.Buildings, it is argued, are not given but produced, as various materials are held together in specific assemblages by work of various kinds. This has led to a range of studies looking at the diverse sorts of work that make buildings cohere: the political institutions they are embedded in, the material affordances of their non-human components, the discourses surrounding particular kinds of buildings, and, in particular, the experiencing of buildings by their human inhabitants, users and visitors. However, this experiencing has been poorly theorised. Those geographers inspired by actor network approaches to buildings acknowledge human experiences, but in very limited ways; while those geographers inspired more by affect theory evoke the 'feelings' that buildings may provoke but evacuate human subjectivity from their accounts of buildings' performances. Through a case study of two buildings, this paper argues that both approaches are flawed in their uninterest in the human, and proposes that more attention be paid to (at least) three aspects of human feeling: the feel of buildings, feelings in buildings, and feelings about buildings.

In recent years, the centres of many towns and cities have been reshaped by urban design projects, but little attention has been paid to how these transformations are experienced everyday by users of the city. In other words: how do the users of urban centers, such as shoppers, cleaners, or workers, perceive these changes, as embodied subjects in specific material environments? This paper analyses how bodies in two intensely designed urban spaces–the shopping centre of Milton Keynes, a 1960s new town, and Bedford’s recently redeveloped historic town centre–are affected by elements of the built environment. ’Affected’ is a term borrowed from Latour (2004),and the paper works with, and elaborates, some of his and others’ work on how bodies are effectuated by other entities. Such Latourian work pays a great deal of attention to how bodies are affected by both human and non-human entities of many kinds, and we examine how certain aspects of the built environment in these two towns affect bodies in specific ways. However, we also emphasise the variability in this process, in particular that bodies seem unaware–or ambivalently aware–of many entities’ affordances.

1 using websites to disseminate research on urban spatialities abstract This paper reviews a selection of websites that explore urban geographies.Many sites use the web as a depository for large amounts of research data.However, many are using websites to disseminate research findings, and the paper focuses on these. It suggests that, thus far, there are three significant ways in which urban researchers are exploiting the potentialities of web technologies to interpret urban spaces: by evoking a sense of the complexity of urban spatialities; by inviting site visitors to engage actively and performatively with the research materials; and by emphasising the sensory qualities of urban spaces. The paper discusses how one website in particular invites its visitors to enage with complex, sensory urban spatialities. The paper compares geographers' use of collage and montage as part of this discussion, and ends by reflecting on current work and commenting on its future development. keywords urban geography, urban experience, website, research dissemination, sensory, performative, spatialities This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Rose, G.; "Using the web to disseminate research on Urban Space" Geography Compass 3 (6) 2098-2108. Wiley-Blackwell, which has been published in final form at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122599132/PDFSTART 2 NOTE: THIS PAPER CONTAINS LINKS TO THE WEBSITES IT DISCUSSES. YOU MAY FIND IT EASIEST TO READ ONLINE WITH ACCESS TO THE WEB. introductionSince the very beginning of the 'cultural turn' in the 1980s, the discipline of geography has been repeatedly asked to change the ways it does its research, represents its findings and explicates its theories. As conceptual frameworks change, so there have been requests for new methods, new ways of writing or performing the discipline, and -the focus of this paper -new ways of communicating its knowledges. edu/~global/). SomeThis is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Rose, G.; "Using the web to disseminate research on Urban Space" Geography Compass 3 (6) 2098-2108. Wiley-Blackwell, which has been published in final form at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122599132/PDFSTART 3 geographers are using photographs as integral parts of their arguments rather than as taken-for-granted illustrations (Edensor 2005;DeSilvey 2007 Campbell's project on media images of famine at http://www.imagingfamine.org/, Latour and Hermant's site 'Paris: Invisible City' at http://www.brunolatour.fr/virtual/index.html and Pryke's website exploring post-1989 Berlin at http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/berlin/index.shtml). As is obvious, it is websites that are very often being used as the medium for these dissemination strategies.Whilst it is true that geographers have always taken photographs, made films and animated maps, for example, the existence of the worldwide web and the availability of relatively cheap digital hardware and software does seem to be encouraging an increasing number...