Mapping Urban Spaces: Designing the European City

by Lamberto Amistadi (Editor), Valter Balducci (Editor), Tomasz Bradecki (Editor), Enrico Prandi (Editor), Uwe Schröder (Editor)

Overview

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the nature of that space.

The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications.

The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032041247
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lamberto Amistadi is an architect and an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna – Cesena Campus and the coordinator of the ArchéA program. He is the deputy director of the scientific journal FAMagazine, devoted to research and projects concerning architecture and the city, and co-director of the series TECA, Teorie della Composizione architettonica (Naples: Clean). Along with Ildebrando Clemente, he founded and directs the series SOUNDINGS: Theory and Architectural Openness (Florence: Aión), which has included monographic volumes on John Hejduk and Aldo Rossi. He is also the author of numerous publications.

Valter Balducci is an architect, has a PhD in architecture (IUAV, 1994), and is a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Normandie, Rouen-Darnétal. He has been a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture at the Genua University (1990–2000), and a researcher and assistant professor at the Bologna University (2001–2014). Since 2014, he is a full professor in urban design at ENSA Normandie. His major research interests are focused on urban analysis and history. Since 2003, he has been conducting research on seaside tourism and projects on public space within seaside territories in relation to climate change.

Tomasz Bradecki, PhD, is an architect, a researcher, and a lecturer of architecture and urban design in the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of Technology since 2010. His main fields of interest include housing, urban design, and mapping with models. Besides research and teaching activity, he has been running an architectural firm since 2008. He is a member of the Polish Chamber of Architects. He is an author and co-author of many publications focusing on housing, commercial, and urban projects.

Enrico Prandi is an architect and an associate professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma and the coordinator of the Parma group of the ArchéA program. He is the director of the scientific open access e-journal FAMagazine. He has been contributing to various research projects concerning architecture and the city and is co-director of the series AAC – Arts | Architecture | City (Turin: Accademia University Press). Since 2016, he has been the coordinator of the research project conducted by architect Luigi Vietti at the CSAC – Study Center and Communication Archive. He is also the author of numerous publications.

Uwe Schröder is an architect and a professor at the RWTH Aachen University. In 1993, he founded his architectural office in Bonn, and since then he has devoted himself to the theory and practice of architecture. Between 2004 and 2008, he was an ordinary professor of architectural theory and design at the TH Köln, and since 2008 he has been a professor in the Department of Spatial Design in the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University. Besides his research and teaching activity in Germany, he taught as a visiting professor at various Italian universities, including Bologna, Naples, Bari, Catania, Milan, and Parma.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Introduction The ArchéA Method Lamberto Amistadi 1

Part I Mapping Spaces: The Phenomenological Approach to the City of Spaces 5

1 A Spatial Understanding of Architecture and the City Uwe Schröder 7

2 Landmarks in a History of Spatial Mapping Felix Mayer 15

3 The Many-Faceted Notion of Space: On the Hypothesis of Mapping and the Observation of Spatial Phenomena Sarah Maria Schroeter 26

4 Stadtraumgestaltungen: On Perceiving and Reading Urban Spaces Timo Steinmann 34

5 Where the Compact and Open City Meet: Inner and Outer Spaces on the Periphery of Aachen North Ilaria Maria Zedda 44

6 Here and There: On the Ambivalence of Transitional Spaces Franziska Kramer 54

Part II Mapping Places: The Italian Tradition of Urban Studies 61

7 Drawing the City: Form and Meaning Lamberto Amistadi 63

8 Urban Events and the Soul of the City: The Poetic Political Tripartition of Urban Form Ildebrando Clemente 76

9 Civic Urbanity: The Places of Everyday Life Francesco Saverio Fera 86

10 Venice as a Paradigm: Urban Studies and the Value of Emptiness in the City's Design Giovanni Marras 94

11 Nature Prepares the Sites, But It Is Man Who Creates the Organism: Bologna through Its Geography, Its History, and Its Planning Tools Valentina Orioli 106

12 New Urban Landscapes: Fragments of Civil Architecture Gino Malacarne 118

Part III Mapping Natural Space: Greenspaces and Urban Design 131

13 The Role of Greenspaces in Urban Design Theories in France Valter Balducci 133

14 Greenspace as an Element for a New Urban Dynamic Fabienne Fendrich 146

15 Uses of Mapping: Methods of Investigation and Ways of Narrating Territory in Architectural Practice and Teaching Anne Portnoï 154

16 Towards a More "Natural" City? Jean-Marc Bichat Philippe Chavanes 164

Part IV Mapping Centralities: Urban Regeneration toward a polycentric City 179

17 The Long-Term Method of the Urban Project in Italy and the Parma School Carlo Quintelli 181

18 Designing the European Medium-Sized City: Urban Regeneration Technique through the Structured Densification of the Centrality System Enrico Prandi 193

19 The Project of a Metropolitan Urban Centrality: The Case of the Former Fruit and Vegetable Market of Bologna Paolo Strina 206

20 Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration: The Case of Driescher Hof in Aachen Giuseppe Verterame 215

21 The European Medium-Sized City: The Characteristics of the Urban Form Marco Maretto 225

22 The Idea of Space and Urban Sequences: The Case of Parma Carlo Gandolfi 236

Part V Mapping Social Space: Demographic Analysis as an Image of Urban Complexity 249

23 Mapping Urban Spaces with the Use of Physical, Digital, and Augmented Reality Models: Experiences from Applications in Architectural and Urban Education Tomasz Bradecki 251

24 The Urban Circle of Life of People with Disabilities: Mapping Urban Inconveniences Katarzyna Ujma-Wasowicz 261

25 Multigenerational Spaces in Conceptual Urban Projects in Polish Cities Agnieszka Labus Pawel Woznicki 270

Afterword Problems of the Contemporary City Raffaella Neri 283

Index 291