Monica Degen

Mónica Degen is Professor of Urban Cultural Sociology at Brunel University London. She has worked on many international research projects with architects, local councils, museum curators, neighbourhood associations and the general public to research the politics of urban regeneration and the role of the senses and experiences in framing architectural practices, urban planning, everyday life and culture in cities from Doha (Qatar) to Cologne, Barcelona and London. She is the author of Sensing Cities (Routledge 2008); The Meta-City: Barcelona – transformation of a metropolis (Anthropos) edited with Marisol Garcia and The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change (Bloomsbury, 2022) co-authored with Gillian Rose.