Title & Author:

City project and public space / Silvia Serreli, editor.

Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.

Description:

xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 14

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Environmental City Project and Public Dimension of Landscape / Silvia Serreli. -- City project: Public space design. A Great Work: Renovatio Urbis in the Age of Globalisation / Arnaldo 'Bibo' Cecchini ; The Identity of the City / Ali Madanipour ; The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape and the Public-Private Borderland. Re-figuring the Field for Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design / Dorian Wiszniewski ; Opening up Relations again Between Form and the World: the City and the 'Becoming' of Forms: Design as the Outcome of a Dynamic Figuration / Lidia Decandia ; Despite the Absence of the Public Sphere: How Common Goods Can Generate Opportunities for the Design of Public Spaces / Davide Ponzini. -- Part 2: Territorial projects: Public space experiences. Territorial Projects as City Project / Gianfranco Sanna ; Bigness or Vastness? / Francesco Spanedda ; Making Territory / Frederick Steiner ; Local and New / Jürgen Weidinger ; Landscape as a Common Collective Protection and Management / Paola Pittaluga ; It don't Mean a Thing if you Ain't Got that Swing: A jazz-based model for the public space project / Giovanni Maria Filindeu. -- Part 3: City policies: public sphere. Designing Public Spaces, Constructing Public Spheres: a Manifesto / Enrico Cicalò ; Urban Play as a "Social Interstice": On a Micro-Intervention Involving a Mobile Game Device / Luc Lévesque ; Space for Plural Publics and their Involvement: Reflections on some Strategic Planning Experiences / Alessandra Casu ; Eight Proposals to Construct the Democratic City of the New Millennium / Alessandro Plaisant ; The Capability Approach in Urban Quality of Life and Urban Policies: Towards a conceptual framework / Ivan Blečić, Arnaldo 'Bibo' Cecchini, and Valentina Talu ; Slow populations and tourism / Daniela Ciaffi and Alfredo Mela.

Summary:

"The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city's space of communication and negotiation. Issues that characterise the dynamics of city development will be faced, such as the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development. Authors have been invited to explore topics that feature a pluralism of disciplinary contributions studying formal and informal practices on the project for the city and seeking conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the problems inherent in the profound transformations of contemporary urban landscapes."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9400760361
9789400760363
940076037X (electronic bk.)
9789400760370 (electronic bk.)

Subject:

City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns Political aspects.
City planning Political aspects.
Urbanization Political aspects.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes Aspect politique.
Urbanisation Aspect politique.
urban sociology.
Offentliga platser.
Landskapsarkitektur.

Added entries:

Serreli, Silvia.
Urban and landscape perspectives ; v. 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290442
Call No.: BIB 233453
Status: Available