Fundamental Trends in City DevelopmentSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007 M12 3 - 220 páginas The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic 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. 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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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 Gener... | 57 |
Intermediate Spaces 133 Counterspace and Disenchantment with the Modern City 138 The Void and the City Project 150 and the City was Born of C... | 67 |
Reinventing the City | 97 |
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