Fundamental Trends in City Development

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental 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. The interpretative categories of externity are the intermediate spaces, the counterspaces, the void, the edge, the territory and the environment, places on which to base the future city project. 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?

List of contents

Three Categories of Utopia.- The Discomposed City.- The Generic City.- The Segregated City.- Reinventing the City.

Summary

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental 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. The interpretative categories of externity are the intermediate spaces, the counterspaces, the void, the edge, the territory and the environment, places on which to base the future city project. 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?

Product details

• Authors: Giovanni Maciocco
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9783540741787
• ISBN: 978-3-540-74178-7
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 15 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 455 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 220 p.
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives; Urban and Landscape Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; C, Architecture, Geography, Urban Planning, Landscape art & architecture, Environment, landscape architecture, The environment, Urbanism, Urban & municipal planning, city planning, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Urban Geography and Urbanism, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban geography, City & town planning: architectural aspects, Cities, Countries, Regions