Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

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Overview

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity and advances the notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, it argues that urban fabric is 'manufactured' in this interplay, examines less visible ways in which the city is organized and shows how these can reveal better ways of dealing with conflict and enhancing urban sociability.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138260900
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/23/2016
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giovanna Sonda, Istituto Regionale di Studi e Ricerca Sociale (IRSRS), Italy, Claudio Coletta, University of Trento, Italy and Francesco Gabbi, IUAV, Â Italy

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword: the city narrated, the city organized?; Introduction: urban plots, organizing cities, Giovanna Sonda, Claudio Coletta and Francesco Gabbi; The graphical performation of a public space: the subway signs and their scripts, Jérôme Denis and David Pontille; The wall and the mobile phone: organizing, governing, resisting, Andrea Mubi Brighenti; Redefining the right to the city: representations of public space as part of the urban struggles, Stavros Stavrides; Hybrid cities: narratives of urban development and popular culture, the case of Medellín (Colombia), Beatriz Acevedo and Ana Maria Carreira; Organizing urban space: tools, processes and public action, Lavinia Bifulco and Massimo Bricocoli; Public sphere in times of governance: public action, disputed building and local cultural system in a northen city of Italy, Vando Borghi and Claudia Meschiari; Transition, memory and narrations in the urban space: the case of East German cities, Barbara Grüning; Transforming spaces: translation as a practice that reveals changing e-motional structures in space, Daniela Allocca; Bibliography; Index.
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