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Overview
What do phenomena like "sprawl", "generic city" or "urban segregation" have in common with the concept of the city? This question is not easy to answer. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city. Expressions like "discomposed city", "generic city" and "segregated city" refer to entities that share the loss of the city as a space of communication and social interaction and as the space of the public sphere.
In order to explore what we call the city adrift, certain positions of scholars of the city are analysed, using the utopia as an analytical category and referring to three kinds - the conservative utopia, liquidatory utopia and resistant utopia - which can perhaps significantly distinguish the different positions on current spatial trends of the city and, more generally, the phenomena emerging in the urban world.
This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens. The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.
About the Author:
Giovanni Maciocco obtained a degree in Engineering at theUniversity of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sassari
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Table of Contents
Three Categories of Utopia 1
City Adrift 1
Conservative, Liquidatory and Resistant Utopias 3
The Discomposed City 7
The Formless City 7
Crisis of the Context of Proximity 9
Crisis of the Ethics of Proximity 18
Deconstruction of the Space of Proximity 22
The Generic City 41
The Revenge of Functionalism 41
Thematisation of the City 44
The City as a Simulacrum 53
Desired Landscapes 57
The Segregated City 67
The Urban Project of Inequality 67
Elitist Segregation as Global Identity 72
Flat Man 79
Reinventing the City 97
Externity 97
Recovering Sensitive Knowledge of the City 103
Walking is the "Speech Act" of the City 112
"Dynamic Traditionality" as a Requisite of Urban Innovation 116
Narrating the City Means Designing its Possible Future 120
Artists Take the City by the Hand 123
Horizons of Contemporary Public Space: Intermediate Spaces 133
Counterspace and Disenchantment with the Modern City 138
The "Void" and the City Project 150
... and the City was Born of Chaos: Designing the City at its Edges 155
The Territory of the City 160
Towards a Reinvented City 165
References 183
Index 199
Name Index 217