Book Details

Fundamental Trends in City Development

Publication year: 2008

: 978-3-540-74179-4

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This book inquires into how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved. And what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The book adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation. We thus need to try to get the city to conserve and show its past even when not visible, and to continue nurturing the imagination of its inhabitants by urban action consisting perhaps of subtly improving their approach to the "void", the "small", to the past, the territory, in general, to all those spatial concepts which are in a sense external to our cultural worlds today, but which represent the most fertile material for the project for the city.


: Earth and Environmental Science / Discomposed City / Externity / Generic City / Innovation / Reinvented city / Segregated City / Segregation / landscape / regional and urban planning / urban geography and urbanism / urban geography and urbanism / Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) / Urbanism / Landscape Architecture