Maciocco Fundamental Trends in City Development

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-74179-4
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Urban and Landscape Perspectives

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic trends of the city are investigated; 'discomposed', 'generic' and 'segregated' phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maciocco, Giovanni

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Three Categories of Utopia;9
2.1;City Adrift;9
2.2;Conservative, Liquidatory and Resistant Utopias;11
2.3;Notes;13
3;The Discomposed City;15
3.1;The Formless City;15
3.2;Crisis of the Context of Proximity;17
3.3;Crisis of the Ethics of Proximity;26
3.4;Deconstruction of the Space of Proximity;30
3.5;Notes;44
4;The Generic City;48
4.1;The Revenge of Functionalism;48
4.2;Thematisation of the City;51
4.3;The City as a Simulacrum;60
4.4;Desired Landscapes;64
4.5;Notes;72
5;The Segregated City;74
5.1;The Urban Project of Inequality;74
5.2;Elitist Segregation as Global Identity;79
5.3;Flat Man;86
5.4;Notes;101
6;Reinventing the City;103
6.1;Externity;103
6.2;Recovering Sensitive Knowledge of the City;109
6.3;Walking is the “Speech Act” of the City;118
6.4;“Dynamic Traditionality” as a Requisite of Urban Innovation;122
6.5;Narrating the City Means Designing its Possible Future;126
6.6;Artists Take the City by the Hand;129
6.7;Horizons of Contemporary Public Space: Intermediate Spaces;139
6.8;Counterspace and Disenchantment with the Modern City;144
6.9;The “Void” and the City Project;156
6.10;… and the City was Born of Chaos: Designing the City at its Edges;161
6.11;The Territory of the City;166
6.12;Towards a Reinvented City;171
6.13;Notes;181
7;References;188
8;Index;204
9;Name Index;221