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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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Cover; Terrain Vague; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: At the Edge of the Pale; 2 Terrain Vague; Part I Locations; 3 Welcome to Bachoura, or the Found City as Interstice; 4 Open Space Appropriations and the Potentialities of a "City of Thresholds"; 5 Three Meditations on the Ruins of Detroit; 6 Perception and Exploration of Interstitial Space: Slots in San Francisco; 7 Void Potential: Spatial Dynamics and Cultural Manifestations of Residual Spaces; Part II Traversings; 8 Transurbance |
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9 On the Threshold: Terrain Vague as Living Space in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker10 Paradoxical Spaces; 11 Garbage Arcadia: Digging for Choruses in Fresh Kills; 12 Isn't All Public Space Terrain Vague?; Part III Applications; 13 Notions of Nature and a Model for Managed Urban Wilds; 14 Interim Spaces: Vacant Land, Creativity, and Innovation in the Context of Uncertainty; 15 The Interstitial Challenge: Manifestations of Terrain Vague in Detroit and Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris; 16 Following the Berlin Wall; 17 Vague Recollections: Obscurity and Uncertainty in Contemporary Public Memorials |
| Summary |
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of ""terrain vague, "" has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this collection of original essays and cases presents innovative ways of looking at marginal urban space, with studies from the United States, Europe and the Middle East, from a diverse grou |
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List of ContributorsIndex |
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Terrain vague.
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raw land.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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Terrain vague
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mariani, Manuela.
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| ISBN |
9781134071470 |
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1134071477 |
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