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"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 contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?"

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Author:   Giovanni Maciocco
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783642093517

ISBN 10:   3642093515
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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 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."

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