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Author Maciocco, Giovanni, 1946-

Title People and space : new forms of interaction in the city project / Giovanni Maciocco and Silvano Tagliagambe
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 5
Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 5.
Contents Background: the Therapeutic Illusion of Space -- The Crisis of Aesthetics and the "Death of the Landscape" -- The Aesthetic Crisis as the Crisis of the Glance -- Projectual Intention and Collective Will -- What We Want or the Kitsch City and the City of Conformism -- The Loss of the Centre -- The Dialectic of Recognition: Places and Friction -- The Local-Supralocal Relationship -- Connective Intelligence and the Concepts of Identity and Belonging -- The Relationship between Individual Subjects and the "Community of Practice" -- City Project and Structure-Subjects -- Dissolution of the Dual City, or the New Suburbanism -- Changes in the Communication Model: from Jakobson to Lotman -- Intermediate Space as the Space for Effective Communication -- Mundialisation, Globalisation, Localisation -- The Border "Takes Shape" -- The City Project: intermediate Space and Symbol -- Project as Social Action: the Art of Moving the Boundary of the Body -- The City as an Intermediate World between Global and Local -- The Eye and the Brain -- Civitas Alone can Save the Urbs
Summary Explores different forms and modalities of relations between people and space that affect the life of the city. This book argues that fertile forms of interaction between people and space happen in the 'intermediate space', at the border of 'urban normality' and those parts of a city where citizens experiment with unconventional social practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject City planning.
Space (Architecture)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Sciences de la terre.
Environnement.
City planning
Space (Architecture)
Stadt
Sozialgeografie
Form Electronic book
Author Tagliagambe, Silvano, 1945-
ISBN 9781402098796
1402098790