The Territorial Future of the City [Paperback]

The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection on this central theme, though from varied disciplinary and experimental backgrounds. They offer new forms of representing social and spatial processes of the contemporary society.

The Territorial Future of the City.- The Dilation of the Concept of Inhabit and?the?City/Territory Relationship.- Planning in Search of Ground: Committed Muddling Through or a Critical View from?Above? 1 .- The Polycentric City and Environmental Resources.- Images of Local Societies and Projects for Space.- Critical Design  The Implementation of?Designerly Thinking to Explore the?Futurity?of Our Physical Environment.- Imagining the Re-/Co-production of a Hybrid Territory: Testing Sustainable Concepts of?Landscape Development in Roeselare-West.- Derelict Places as Alternative Territories of the City.

From the reviews:

The book is characterised by a considerable breadth of perspectives, which makes the reading a highly intellectual journey through discourses, concepts and partly empirical findings on the territorial future of the city. & the book presents a number of common grounds and inspiring ideas and concepts. & This makes the book particularly attractive for Masters and PhD students, as it offers some inspiring examples of how to research the territorial future(s) of the city. (Peter Schmitt, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 24, 2009)

To imagine a ''territorial future of the city is to assert that the territory has urban potential. It points towards the rediscovery of an anchorage to the land: the city is urged by the territory to reflect on the meaning of man's dwelling, to inquire into the primary elements of its construcl3@