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Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics,
human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this
book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the
multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of
appropriating urban space, and the different material factors
involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an
innovative conceptual framework to reconsider some fundamental
features of city-making as a social process: the place of cities in
encounters and communications, in the randomness of events and in
the repetition of activities that characterise societies. In doing
so, it provides fresh analytical tools and theoretical insights to
help advance our understanding of the networks of causalities,
contingencies and contexts involved in practices of city-making. In
a systematic attempt to bring urban analysis and research from the
social sciences together, the book is organised around three vital
yet relatively neglected dimensions in the social and material
shaping of cities: (i) Cities as systems of encounter: an approach
to urban segregation as segregated networks; (ii) Cities as systems
of communication: a view of shared spaces as a means to association
and social experience; (iii) Cities as systems of material
interaction: explorations on urban form as an effect of
interactivity, and interactivity as an effect of form. Visit the
author's website at: http://socialfabric.city/
Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics,
human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this
book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the
multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of
appropriating urban space, and the different material factors
involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an
innovative conceptual framework to reconsider some fundamental
features of city-making as a social process: the place of cities in
encounters and communications, in the randomness of events and in
the repetition of activities that characterise societies. In doing
so, it provides fresh analytical tools and theoretical insights to
help advance our understanding of the networks of causalities,
contingencies and contexts involved in practices of city-making. In
a systematic attempt to bring urban analysis and research from the
social sciences together, the book is organised around three vital
yet relatively neglected dimensions in the social and material
shaping of cities: (i) Cities as systems of encounter: an approach
to urban segregation as segregated networks; (ii) Cities as systems
of communication: a view of shared spaces as a means to association
and social experience; (iii) Cities as systems of material
interaction: explorations on urban form as an effect of
interactivity, and interactivity as an effect of form. Visit the
author's website at: http://socialfabric.city/
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