People and space: new forms of interaction in the city project

This book explores new forms and modalities of relations between people and space that increasingly affect the life of the city. The investigation takes asits starting point the idea that in contemporary societies the loss of our relationship with place is a symptom of a breakdown in the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. This in turn has caused a crisis not only in taste, butalso in our sense of beauty, our aesthetic instinct, and our moral values. Ithas also led to the loss of our engagement with the landscape, which is essential for cities to function. The authors argue that new, fertile forms of interaction between people and space are now happening in what they call the ‘intermediate space’, at the border of "urban normality" and those parts of a city where citizens experiment with unconventional social practices. This new interaction engenders a collective conscience, giving a new and productive vigor tothe actions of individuals and also their relations with their environment. Analyzes new modes of interaction between city dwellers and the urban environment Explores the concept of the city as an intermediate world between global and local, with fluidity of social aggregation Examines ways of creating shared values and new institutions in cities that are composed of minorities Sees thecity as the arena of a new form of social cohesion that will create the urbanspace of the future INDICE: From the 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-supralocalrelationship.- Connective intelligence and the concepts of identity and belonging.- The relationship between individual subjects and the "community of practice" concept.- 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.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9878-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés