Professor Monica Degen
Professor
Marie Jahoda 236
- Email: monica.degen@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265940
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
Degen, M. and Ward, I. (2025) 'Future Urban Imaginaries: Placemaking and Digital Visualizations', inSeeing the City Digitally Processing Urban Space and Time. Routledge. pp. 109 - 137.
Degen, M. and Turégano, BG. (2025) 'Urban aesthetics and power: Branding sensory conviviality in London and Barcelona', in Blakey, J. and Barron, A. (eds.) Aesthetics and the City. London : Routledge. pp. 36 - 54. ISBN 10: 1-003-33599-3. ISBN 13: 978-1-032-37235-8.
Gutiérrez-Ujaque, D., Degen, M. and Bonastra, Q. (2025) 'Using GIFscapes to examine young people's affective experiences of urban spaces'. Geoforum, 160. pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0016-7185 Open Access Link
Degen, M. (2024) 'Steps: Steps to move and change'. Allegra lab, October (October).
Degen, M. (2024) 'Skin: The reciprocity of Touch'. Allegra Lab, October (October).
Degen, M. (2024) 'Gut Feelings: Listen to your gut feelings'. Allegra Lab, October (October).
Degen, M. and Rose, G. (2024) 'Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city'. Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 0042-0980 Open Access Link
Gutiérrez-Ujaque, D. and Degen, MM. (2023) 'Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus'. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0309-8265 Open Access Link
Degen, M. (2023) 'Spectacle as the New Urban Aesthetic'. Mediapolis, 8 (1).
Degen, M. (Accepted) 'Postcards from Barcelona', in Sheller, M. (ed.) Mobilities and Complexities: Reflections on post-carbon social science. Routledge.
Degen, M. (Accepted) 'Regenerating Public Life? A sensory analysis of regenerated public places in el Raval, Barcelona', in Rendell, J. (ed.) Advances in Art and Urban Futures. Intellect Press.
Degen, M. and Rose, G. (2022) 'The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change'. Bloomsbury. ISSN 13: 9781350070837
Degen, M. and Ward, I. (2022) 'Future Urban Imaginaries: placemaking and digital visualisations', in Rose, G. (ed.) Seeing the City Digitally: Reconfiguring Temporalities, Spatialities and Collectivities. Amsterdam, NL : Amsterdam University Press. pp. 109 - 137. ISBN 10: 94-6372-703-5. ISBN 13: 978-94-6372-703-7. Open Access Link
Degen, M., Filtness, E. and Butler, T. (2021) 'Reimagining Uxbridge High Street'.
Degen, M. and Barz, M. (2020) 'Mapping Urban Experience Digitally', in Ward, K. (ed.) Researching the City. SAGE Publications Ltd. , 2. pp. 181 - 201. ISBN 10: 1529700957. Open Access Link
Degen, M., Bonastra, Q. and Gutierrez-Ujaque, D. (2019) 'Assemblages in Higher Education: a New Learning-Teaching Approach through the Prism of Social Space, Transdisciplinary Practices and Contemporary Art'. Higher Education in the World 7 UNESCO.
Degen, M. and Lewis, C. (2019) 'The changing feel of place: the temporal modalities of atmospheres in Smithfield Market, London'. Cultural Geographies, 27 (4). pp. 509 - 526. ISSN: 1474-4740 Open Access Link
Degen, M. (2018) 'Timescapes of urban change: The temporalities of regenerated streets'. Sociological Review, 66 (5). pp. 1074 - 1092. ISSN: 0038-0261 Open Access Link
Degen, M. (2018) 'Postcards from a city', in Jensen, OB., Kesselring, S. and Sheller, M. (eds.) Mobilities and Complexities. Routledge. pp. 48 - 55.
Degen, MM., Lewis, C., Swenson, A. and Ward, I. (2017) 'The Changing Feel of Smithfield: exploring sensory identities and temporal flows'. Place of publication: Brunel University London.
Buckingham, S., Degen, M. and Marandet, E. (2017) '‘Lived bodies’ and the neoliberal city – a case study of vulnerability in London'. Gender, Place & Culture, 25 (3). pp. 334 - 350. ISSN: 0966-369X Open Access Link
Degen, M. (2017) 'Urban Regeneration and 'Resistance of Place': Foregrounding Time and Experience'. Space and Culture, 20 (2). pp. 141 - 155. ISSN: 1206-3312 Open Access Link
Degen, MM., Melhuish, C. and Rose, G. (2016) '“The real modernity that is here”: understanding the role of digital visualisations in the production of a new urban imaginary at Msheireb Downtown, Doha'. City and Society, 28 (2). pp. 222 - 245. ISSN: 1548-744X Open Access Link
Degen, MM., Buckingham, S. and Marandet, E. (2016) 'Women involved in street sex work in the UK: An analysis of service need and provision'. Place of publication: U-Turn Women's Project. Available at: http://uturnproject.co.uk/news.html.Open Access Link
Degen, MM. and Rose, G. (2016) 'Dimming the scintillating glow of unwork: looking at digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects', in Lindner, C. and Jordan, S. (eds.) Cities Interrupted Visual Culture and Urban Space. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 10: 1474224415. ISBN 13: 9781474224413.
Rose, G., Degen, M. and Melhuish, C. (2016) 'LOOKING AT DIGITAL VISUALIZATIONS OF URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS: DIMMING THE SCINTILLATING GLOW OF UNWORK', inCities Interrupted Visual Culture and Urban Space. pp. 105 - 120.
Degen, MM., Melhuish, C. and Rose, G. (2015) 'Producing Place Atmospheres Digitally: Architecture, Digital Visualisations Practices and the Experience Economy'. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17 (1). pp. 3 - 24. ISSN: 1741-2900 Open Access Link
Degen, M., Rose, G. and Melhuish, C. (2014) 'Learning from CGis'. Architectural Review. ISSN: 0003-861X
Degen, M., Melhuish, C. and Rose, G. (2014) 'Architectural Atmospheres: affect and agency of mobile digital images in the material transformation of the urban landscape in Doha'. Tasmeem: design.research.connect, 4.
Degen, MM. (2014) 'The everyday city of the senses', in Paddison, R. and McCann, E. (eds.) Cities and Social Change. Sage. , Forthcoming. ISBN 10: 1848601107. ISBN 13: 978-1848601109.
Degen, MM., Rose, G. and Melhuish, C. (2014) 'Networks, interfaces and computer-generated images: learning from digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 (2). pp. 386 - 403. ISSN: 1472-3433 Open Access Link
Degen, M. and Garcia, S. (2012) 'The Transformation of the ‘Barcelona Model’: An Analysis of Culture, Urban Regeneration and Governance'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36 (5). pp. 1022 - 1038. ISSN: 0309-1317
Degen, MM. and Rose, G. (2012) 'The sensory experiencing of urban design: The role of walking and perceptual memory'. Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, 49 (15). pp. 3271 - 3287. ISSN: 0042-0980
Degen, M. (2012) 'Consuming Urban rhythms: Let's Ravalejar', inGeographies of Rhythm Nature Place Mobilities and Bodies. pp. 21 - 31.
Buckingham, S. and Degen, M. (2012) 'Sensing our way: Using yoga as a research method'. The Senses and Society, 7 (3). pp. 329 - 344. ISSN: 1745-8927
Degen, M. (2010) 'Consuming urban rhythms: Let's ravalejar', inGeographies of Rhythm Nature Place Mobilities and Bodies. pp. 21 - 31.
Degen, M. and Wainwright, E. (2010) 'Wallpaper* city guides and gendering the urban aesthetic'. Tourist Studies, 10 (2). pp. 155 - 174. ISSN: 1468-7976
Rose, G., Degen, M. and Basdas, B. (2010) 'More on ‘big things’: Building events and feelings'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35 (3). pp. 334 - 349. ISSN: 0020-2754
Degen, MM. (2010) 'The urban green: passionate involvements with urban natures', in Miles, M. and Degen, M. (eds.) Culture and Agency: Contemporary Culture and Urban Change. Univerity of Plymouth Press.
Degen, M. (2010) 'Culture and agency: contemporary culture and urban change'. Plymouth University Press.
Degen, MM. (2010) 'Consuming urban rhythms: Let’s ravalejar', in Edensor, T. (ed.) Geographies of Rhythm. Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing. pp. 21 - 31. ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-7662-1. Open Access Link
Degen, M., Rose, G. and Basdas, B. (2010) 'Bodies and everyday practices in designed urban environments'. Science Studies, 23 (2). pp. 60 - 76. ISSN: 0786-3012 Open Access Link
Rose, G., Basdas, B. and Degen, M. (2009) 'Using websites to disseminate research on urban spatialities'. Geography Compass, 3 (6). pp. 2098 - 2108. ISSN: 1749-8198 Open Access Link
Degen, MM. (2008) 'Sensing cities: Regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester'. Routledge.
Degen, MM. (2008) 'Sensing cities: regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester'. Routledge. ISSN 13: 978-0-415-39799-5
Degen, M. and Garcia, M. (2008) 'La metaciudad: Barcelona: transformación de una metrópolis (The meta-city: Barcelona - transformation of a metropolis)'. Anthropos. ISSN 10: 8476588593 ISSN 13: 978-8476588598
Degen, MM. (2008) 'Modelling a new Barcelona: the design of public life', inThe Meta-city: Barcelona – Transformation of a Metropolis. Barcelona : Anthropos.
Degen, MM. and Garcia, M. (2008) 'Introduction: Barcelona: spaces, cultures and societies', inThe Meta-city: Barcelona – Transformation of a Metropolis. Barcelona : Anthropos.
Degen, M., DeSilvey, C. and Rose, G. (2008) 'Experiencing visualities in designed urban environments: learning from Milton Keynes'. Environment and Planning A, 40 (8). pp. 1901 - 1920. ISSN: 0308-518X
Degen, MM., Hinchliffe, S., Whatmore, S. and Kearnes, M. (2007) 'Ecologies and economies of action - sustainability, calculations and other things'. Environment and Planning, 39 (2). pp. 260 - 282. ISSN: 0308-518X