Panu Lehtovuori

Experience and Conflict: The Production of Urban Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist. This book propounds that this process is conducted in an artificial reality, 'Concept City', characterized by a simplified and outdated conception of space.

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Based on empirical observations in Helsinki, Manchester and Berlin, this is a ground-breaking constructive critique of the concepts, underlying the practices of planning and architecture. With central notions of temporality, experiment and conflict, this book contextualizes Lefebvre's ideas on urban planning and architecture, but also allows insights to new theoretical work, including that of Finnish and Swedish authors. In doing so, it suggests and develops exciting new approaches and tools leading to 'experiential urbanism'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780754676027
• ISBN-10: 0754676021
• Artikelnr.: 41239263

Autorenporträt

Panu Lehtovuori, Chair of Urban Studies, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction
Part 1 Concept City: Space distanced and objectified
Current conceptualisations of public urban space. Part 2 Moments of Experience: Social space
Weak place. Part 3 Conflicts Assembling Space: Spatial dialectics
Public urban space as the event of assembly. Part 4 Hi-Jacking Helsinki: Urban events producing space
Makasiinit - a lost opportunity. Part 5 Towards Experiential Urbanism: The experiential approach to urban planning
A new paradigm
Afterword
Bibliography
Index