 Towards an ambient ecology of the urban 
This article is deliberately exploratory in terms of urban studies. He pleads for an sensitization of urban studies and wonders about a possible urban ecology of ambiances. Three major processes are particularly explored: 1) the aestheticization of urban spaces and the setting of our living environments; 2) the growing impact of the digital transition on our ways of feeling and perceiving; 3) the emergence of an ecological sensitivity taking into account the passage to the era of the Anthropocene. These large-scale trends open the door to a renewed urban ecology, more attentive to the atmospheric, affective and existential conditions of contemporary