Overview
- Contains original references (literature, philosophy, cinema) not to be found in the disciplinary discourse
- Determines an open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies through a comparative analysis of global case studies
- Provides abstracts, introduction and brief conclusions for each chapter
- Contains an apparatus of 40 illustrations including color photographs, drawings and diagrams
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dealing with the Composite
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Tests, Philosophy, Agenda
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents: 1) an urban-studies panorama on the emergence of a built/landscape continuum following the anthropic expansion at the geographic scale and the consequent demise of the city/country divide; 2) an in-depth theoretical analysis of disparate landscape constructs, culminating in the proposal of a comprehensive spatial paradigm addressing both manmade and natural contexts; 3) the in-situ transcription of the proposed spatial paradigm into a landscape installation implementing a territorial narrative in the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. Foreword by Peter G. Rowe and afterword by Elisa C. Cattaneo.
By virtue of its openness, fluidity, and volatility, fluctuating between heterogeneity and diversity, today’s built/landscape continuum exhibits analogies with distinct notions of landscape. The book determines an open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies exceeding the urban and metropolitan ambit, through a comparative anatomy of global case studies ranging from hard to soft: geotechnics or applied geographies, machinic micro-ecologies, aesthetic prostheses for operative metabolism, cybernetic utopias, atmospheric assemblages, psychic spheres, creole horizons, semiotic landscapes, geopolitical landscapes, geophilosophical excavations. The proposed spatial paradigm, accommodating aggregates of artificial and living systems, physical and mental spaces, and machinic and cultural landscapes, intends to reconcile the traditionally opposed ‘scientific-cognitive-metabolist’ and ‘cultural-geophilosophical-territorialist’ visions of the landscape. The resulting model transcends the exhausted myths of urban space, metropolitanism, and their filiations, in favor of a new form of urbanity and its attributes. Parts of the work were developed in the frame of research projects of Universidad de Monterrey and Parque Ecológico Chipinque and the IDAUP of UniFE and Polis.
The target audience of the book is researchers, teachers, andadvanced students engaged in landscape and urban studies with a prevalent focus on theory. The book can also benefit professional and institutional audiences looking for ethical/methodological orientation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape Paradigms and Post-urban Spaces
Book Subtitle: A Journey Through the Regions of Landscape
Authors: Roberto Pasini
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77887-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77886-0Published: 19 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08564-3Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77887-7Published: 07 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 226
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology