Fundamental Trends in City Development
Giovanni Maciocco
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Hardback. Reflecting 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. What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? How can the city construct contemporary public space? Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMVD; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 501.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540741787
SKU
V9783540741787
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99-15
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