Cities of Dispersal

Cities of Dispersal
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136
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9780470066379
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Книги издательства Willey

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Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low–density environments. It describes this new form of urbanism: decentralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not homogenous or necessarily low–rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern. While functionally and programmatically dispersed, settlements operate as a form of urbanism; the place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated. The physical transformation of the built environment on the one hand, and the change in our notion of the public on the other – due to globalisation, privatisation and segregation – callfor renewed interpretations of the nature and character of public space. The concept of public space needs to be examined: replaced, re–created or adapted to fit these conditions. What is the place of the public in this form of urbanism, and how...

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