Wesener gives urban atmosphere an empirical method by following participants through Cuba Street and recording field descriptions, sketches, feelings and interpretations as spatial situations change. The study’s key contribution is to resist the assumption that a street possesses one coherent or dominant atmosphere. Built form and movement influence perception, and recognisable atmospheric zones can emerge, yet participants frequently describe the same situations differently or even contradict one another. Atmosphere is therefore neither purely subjective nor a stable property of urban form; it is co-produced through material arrangements, mobile bodies and situated interpretation. Methodologically, the paper combines walking, first-person description and sketching to identify transitions in sensory experience while retaining disagreement as evidence rather than noise. This makes the method particularly valuable for urban fieldwork concerned with plurality. Wesener bridges phenomenology, landscape architecture and sensory urbanism by showing how the city’s affective qualities become legible through moving
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