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People and Space - New Forms of Interaction in the City Project (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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People and Space - New Forms of Interaction in the City Project (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives, 5
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This book explores new forms and modalities of relations between
people and space that increasingly affect the life of the city. The
investigation takes as its 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, but
also in our sense of beauty, our aesthetic instinct, and our moral
values. It has 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 to the actions of individuals and also their
relations with their environment. These new relations emerge only
after we abandon what is called the "therapeutic illusion of
space", which still exists today, and which binds in a
deterministic manner the quality of civitas, the associative life
of people in the city, to the quality of urban space. Projects for
the city should, instead, have as their keystone the notion of
social action as a return to a critical perspective, to a
courageous acceptance of social responsibility, at the same time as
seeking the generative structures of urban life in which civitas
and urbs again acknowledge each other.
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