Overview

The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city’s space of communication and negotiation. Issues that characterise the dynamics of city development will be faced, such as the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development. Authors have been invited to explore topics that feature a pluralism of disciplinary contributions studying formal and informal practices on the project for the city and seeking conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the problems inherent in the profound transformations of contemporary urban landscapes.

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Author:   Silvia Serreli
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.978kg
ISBN:  

9789400793262

ISBN 10:   940079326
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   15 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Environmental City Project and Public Dimension of Landscape.- A Great Work: Renovatio Urbis in the Age of Globalisation.- The Identity of the City.- The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape and the Public-Private Borderland. Re-figuring the Field for Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design.- Opening up Relations again Between Form and the World: the City and the ‘Becoming’ of Forms. Design as the Outcome of a Dynamic Figuration.- Despite the Absence of the Public Sphere. How Common Goods Can Generate Opportunities for the Design of Public Spaces.- Territorial Projects as City Project.- Bigness or Vastness?.- Making Territory.- Local and New.- Landscape as a Common Collective Protection and Management.- It don't Mean a Thing if you Ain't Got that Swing. A jazz-based model for the public space project .- Designing Public Spaces, Constructing Public Spheres: a Manifesto.- Urban Play as a “Social Interstice”. On a Micro-Intervention Involving a Mobile Game Device.- Space for Plural Publics and their Involvement: Reflections on some Strategic Planning Experiences.- Eight Proposals to Construct the Democratic City of the New Millennium.- The Capability Approach in Urban Quality of Life and Urban Policies. Towards a conceptual framework.- Slow populations and tourism.

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Silvia Serreli is a Researcher in Landscape and Urban Planning at the Architecture, Planning and Design Department of the University of Sassari. She is a lecturer in Territorial Planning. She has written contributions to Urban Landscape Perspectives (Ed.: G. Maciocco, 2008) and The Territorial Future of the City (Ed.: G. Maciocco, 2008). She was co-editor of Enhancing the City: New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure (2009) and The Urban Potential of External Territories (2011). Silvia Serreli works on urban and environmental projects in coastal areas and low-density settlements.

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