The Territorial Future of the City

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Maciocco, Giovanni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 3
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Architecture.; Landscape architecture.; City planning.; Environment.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urbanism.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Landscape Architecture.; Environment, general.

To imagine a ''territorial future of the city" is to assert that the territory has urban potential. It points towards the rediscovery of an anchorage to the land: the city is urged by the territory to reflect on the meaning of man's dwelling, to inquire into the primary elements...

Table of Contents:

• The Territorial Future of the City
• The Dilation of the Concept of ‘Inhabit’ and the City/Territory Relationship
• Planning in Search of Ground: Committed Muddling Through or a Critical View from Above? 1
• The Polycentric City and Environmental Resources
• Images of Local Societies and Projects for Space
• Critical Design – The Implementation of ‘Designerly’ Thinking to Explore the Futurity of Our Physical Environment
• Imagining the Re-/Co-production of a Hybrid Territory: Testing Sustainable Concepts of Landscape Development in Roeselare-West
• Derelict Places as Alternative Territories of the City.