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 contemporarysocieties? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In whatway can the city project construct contemporary public space? Provides a theoretical contribution to the project for the city departing from an interpretation of real international situations. Comparative analysis is made of the different cultural positions, which are not configured as simple recognition but as elements for the project. The theme of the city is faced both from the spatial and the social point of view INDICE: From the contents Three categories of utopia. City adrift. Conservative, liquidatory and resistant utopias. The discomposed city. The formless city. Crisis of the context of proximity. Crisis of the ethics of proximity. Deconstruction of the space of proximity. The generic city. The revenge of functionalism. Thematisation of the city. The city as a simulacrum. Desired landscapes. The segregated city. The urban project of inequality. Elitist segregationas global identity. Flat man. Reinventing the city. Externity. Recovering sensitive knowledge of the city. Walking is the ‘speech act’ of the city. ‘Dynamic traditionality’ as a requisite of urban innovation. Narrating the city meansdesigning its possible future. Artists take the city by the hand. Horizons ofcontemporary public space: intermediate spaces. Counterspace and disenchantment with the modern city. The ‘void’ and the city project. … and the City was Born of Chaos: designing the city at its edges.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-74178-7
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés