Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeBackground. The therapeutic illusion of space.- 1. The crisis of aesthetics and the 'death of the landscape'.- 2. The aesthetic crisis as the crisis of the glance.- 3. Projectual intention and collective will.- 4. What we want, or the kitsch city and the city of conformism.- 5. Loss of the centre.- 6. The dialectic of recognition: places and attrition.- 7. The local-supralocal relationship.- 8. Connective intelligence and articulation of the concepts of identity and belonging.- 9. The relationship between individual subjects and collective subjects and the 'community of practice' concept.- 10. City project and structure-subjects.- 11. Dissolution of the dual city, or the new suburbanism.- 12. Changes in the communication model: from Jakobson to Lotman.- 13. Intermediate space as the space for effective communication.- 14. 'Mondialisation', globalisation, localisation.- 15. The border 'takes shape'.- 16. The city project: intermediate space and symbol.- 17. Project as social action: the art of moving the boundary of the body.- 18. The city as an intermediate world between global and local.- 19. The eye and the brain.- 20. Civitas alone can save the urbs.
Autorenportrait
Giovanni Maciocco obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning. Among his works: Les lieux de l'eau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Il progetto ambientale nelle aree di bordo, with P. Pittaluga (FrancoAngeli, 2006); Fundamental Trends in City Development (Springer, 2007); Urban Landscape Perspectives (ed.) (Springer, 2008); The Territorial Future of the City (ed.) (Springer, 2008). Silvano Tagliagambe, graduated in Philosophy, specialised in Physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and then at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Full Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Architecture at Sassari University. Among his works: Le due vie della percezione e l'epistemologia del progetto (FrancoAngeli, 2005); Come leggere Florenskij (Bompiani, 2006); La tecnica e il corpo. Riflessioni su uno scritto di Pavel Florenskij (FrancoAngeli, 2007); Lo spazio intermedio (Università Bocconi Editore, 2008).
