Fundamental Trends in City Development [Paperback]

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?

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 Segregation as 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 Means Designing its Possible Future. Artists Take the City by the Hand. Horizons of Contemporary 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. The Territory of the City. Towards a Reinvented City.- References.- Index.- Name Index.

Urban and Landscape Perspectives

G. Maciocco

Fundamental Trends in City Development

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