The Territorial Future of the City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Territorial Future of the City

   • Giovanni Maciocco

   Pages 1-25

3. The Dilation of the Concept of ‘Inhabit’ and the City/Territory Relationship

   • Silvano Tagliagambe

   Pages 27-46

4. Planning in Search of Ground: Committed Muddling Through or a Critical View from Above?¹

   • Isabelle Doucet

   Pages 47-70

5. The Polycentric City and Environmental Resources

   • Alfredo Mela

   Pages 71-86

6. Images of Local Societies and Projects for Space

   • Paola Pittaluga

   Pages 87-104

7. Critical Design – The Implementation of ‘Designerly’ Thinking to Explore the Futurity of Our Physical Environment

   • Nel Janssens

   Pages 105-125

8. Imagining the Re-/Co-production of a Hybrid Territory: Testing Sustainable Concepts of Landscape Development in Roeselare-West

   • Liesl Vanautgaerden, Bruno De Meulder, Kaat Boon

   Pages 127-143

9. Derelict Places as Alternative Territories of the City

   • Silvia Serreli

   Pages 145-159

10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-165

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The volume brings together contributions by both leading scholars and young academics with a particular experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection on this central theme, though from varied disciplinary and experimental backgrounds. Leading academics like A. Mela (Prof. of Territory and Environment Sociology, University of Turin), S. Tagliagambe (Prof. of Philosophy and Science, University of Sassari), G. Maciocco (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Alghero, Italy) and P. Pittaluga have accumulated long-time experience in developing environmental approaches within Philosophy, Sciences, Environmental Planning and Art. Researchers like I. Doucet, N. Janssens and K. Boon in their turn bring in approaches related to specific European contexts.

• Counter-space
• Environmental centrality
• Intermediate spaces
• Landscape
• Polycentric city
• Spatiality
• Urban potential
• architecture
• design
• environment
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• urban geography and urbanism

From the reviews:

“The book is characterised by a considerable breadth of perspectives, which makes the reading a highly intellectual journey through discourses, concepts and partly empirical findings on the territorial future of the city. … the book presents a number of common grounds and inspiring ideas and concepts. … This makes the book particularly attractive for Master’s and PhD students, as it offers some inspiring examples of how to research the territorial future(s) of the city.” (Peter Schmitt, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 24, 2009)

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