Només imatges: la targeta postal, vehicle de coneixement urbà

• Autores: Jordi Sardà Ferran
• Directores de la Tesis: Maria Rubert de Ventós (dir. tes.), Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubio (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2012
• Idioma: catalán
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: José Rafael Moneo Vallés (presid.), Josep Parcerisa (secret.), Carmen Bonell Costa (voc.), Pau Solà Morales (voc.), Manolo Laguillo (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias de las artes y las letras
    • Arquitectura
      • Urbanismo
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • This dissertation is a study of the contemporary city using picture postcards as its sole frame of reference. Until now the postcard has enjoyed little recognition as a documentary medium that could function reliably and of its own accord. Nor has it been viewed as being up to the task of advancing complex phenomenological urban studies. Too often the postcard has been deemed inappropriate as a scholarly resource, a flimsy, pint-sized, sporadic, insignificant and overly popular artifact. The present study shows that, precisely because of their multiple, intersubjective and intimate character, postcards, with their double-sided interplay between image and text, have the potential to reveal circumstances, developments and exchanges involving cities that other, better established media are often at a loss to explain.