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Title

The territorial future of the city / Giovanni Maciocco, editor.

Publication

[Berlin ; New York] : Springer, c2008

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Maciocco, Giovanni, 1946-

Description

ix, 165 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• "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 construction, to investigate what is essentially urban. For the city of our times has somehow hidden its essence; it has begun to lose its public sphere - becoming a simulacrum of itself, a group of theme-parks, of islands without an archipelago - placing its inhabitants in a ''no-man's-land between past and future''. It seeks its essence on the territory, since it is environmental interdependence that characterizes those relations on which the environmental quality of urban life is founded. And it is precisely the environmental dimension that, by proposing more extensive use of the territory, opens up prospects for a new public sphere through collective awareness-raising of the ''environmental dominants'' that constitute ''an idea that unites places and spatial concepts rich in nature and history'' and are present in the life of the men inhabiting a territory.
• (continued) Reinsertion of the territory in the context of urban life is explored in this book with contributions by architects, urbanists, sociologists and philosophers. They investigate low-density urban situations, an environmental city perspective that recuperates the historic depth and sense of the territory to relaunch them in current terms; thus we may speak of the "territorial future of the city"."--

Series Statement

Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Urban and landscape perspectives v. 3.

Subject

• Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
• Urbanism
• Cities, Countries, Regions
• Landscape Architecture
• Environment, general
• Geography
• Environmental sciences
• Architecture
• Regional planning
• Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Cities and towns > Growth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. The territorial future of the city / Giovanni Maciocco -- 2. The dilation of the concept of "inhabit' and the city/territory relationship / Silvano Tagliagambe -- 3. Planning in search of ground: committed muddling through or a critical view from above? / Isabelle Doucet -- 4. The polycentric city and environmental resources / Alfredo Mela -- 5. Images of local societies and projects for space / Paola Pittaluga -- 6. Critical design - the implementation of 'designerly' thinking to explore the futurity of our physical environment / Nel Janssens -- 7. Imagining the re/co-production of a hybrid territory: testing sustainable concepts of landscape development in Roeselare-West / Liesl Vanautgaerden, Bruno De Meulder and Kaat Boon -- 8. Derelict places as alternative territories of the city / Silvia Serreli.

ISBN

• 3540775137
• 9783540775133

LCCN

^^2008928691

OCLC

213479626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library