: Giovanni Maciocco
: Fundamental Trends in City Development
: Springer-Verlag
: 9783540741794
: 1
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: Stadt-, Raum- und Landschaftsplanung
: English
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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?
Contents7
Three Categories of Utopia9
City Adrift9
Conservative, Liquidatory and Resistant Utopias11
Notes13
The Discomposed City15
The Formless City15
Crisis of the Context of Proximity17
Crisis of the Ethics of Proximity26
Deconstruction of the Space of Proximity30
Notes44
The Generic City48
The Revenge of Functionalism48
Thematisation of the City51
The City as a Simulacrum60
Desired Landscapes64
Notes72
The Segregated City74
The Urban Project of Inequality74
Elitist Segregation as Global Identity79
Flat Man86
Notes101
Reinventing the City103
Externity103
Recovering Sensitive Knowledge of the City109
Walking is the “Speech Act” of the City118
“Dynamic Traditionality” as a Requisite of Urban Innovation122
Narrating the City Means Designing its Possible Future126
Artists Take the City by the Hand129
Horizons of Contemporary Public Space: Intermediate Spaces139
Counterspace and Disenchantment with the Modern City144
The “Void” and the City Project156
… and the City was Born of Chaos: Designing the City at its Edges161
The Territory of the City166
Towards a Reinvented City171
Notes181
References188
Index204
Name Index221