Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Maciocco, Giovanni, 1946-

Title Fundamental trends in city development / Giovanni Maciocco
Published New York : Springer, ©2008

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages)
Series Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 1
Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 1.
Contents Three categories of utopia -- The discomposed city -- The generic city -- The segregated city -- Reinventing the city
Summary The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental 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. The interpretative categories of externity are the intermediate spaces, the counterspaces, the void, the edge, the territory and the environment, places on which to base the future city project. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Cities and towns -- Growth.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns -- Philosophy
City Planning
urban sociology.
urban planning.
suburban growth.
urban sprawl.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Cities and towns -- Growth.
City planning.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Sociology, Urban
Cities and towns -- Philosophy
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783540741787
354074178X
9783540741794
3540741798
Other Titles City development