Mapping Urban Spaces: Designing the European City

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Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the nature of that space. The chapters develop from a phenomenological study of space to contributions on places and landscapes in the city. Centralities and their meaning are studied, as well as the social space and its complexity. The contributions focus on history and theory as well as concrete research and mapping approaches and the resulting design applications. The case studies come from countries around Europe including Poland, Italy, Greece, Germany, and France, among others. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors INTRODUCTION: The ArchéA Method PART I: Mapping Spaces: The Phenomenological Approach to the City of Spaces 1 A Spatial Understanding of Architecture and the City 2 Landmarks in a History of Spatial Mapping 3 The Many-Faceted Notion of Space: On the Hypothesis of Mapping and the Observation of Spatial Phenomena 4 Stadtraumgestaltungen: On Perceiving and Reading Urban Spaces 5 Where the Compact and Open City Meet: Inner and Outer Spaces on the Periphery of Aachen North 6 Here and There: On the Ambivalence of Transitional Spaces PART II: Mapping Places: The Italian Tradition of Urban Studies 7 Drawing the City: Form and Meaning 8 Urban Events and the Soul of the City: The Poetic Political Tripartition of Urban Form 9 Civic Urbanity: The Places of Everyday Life 10 Venice as a Paradigm: Urban Studies and the Value of Emptiness in the City’s Design 11 Nature Prepares the Sites, But It Is Man Who Creates the Organism: Bologna through Its Geography, Its History, and Its Planning Tools 12 New Urban Landscapes: Fragments of Civil Architecture PART III: Mapping Natural Space: Greenspaces and Urban Design 13 The Role of Greenspaces in Urban Design Theories in France 14 Greenspace as an Element for a New Urban Dynamic 15 Uses of Mapping: Methods of Investigation and Ways of Narrating Territory in Architectural Practice and Teaching 16 Towards a More “Natural” City? PART IV: Mapping Centralities: Urban Regeneration toward a Polycentric City 17 The Long-Term Method of the Urban Project in Italy and the Parma School 18 Designing the European Medium-Sized City: Urban Regeneration Technique through the Structured Densification of the Centrality System 19 The Project of a Metropolitan Urban Centrality: The Case of the Former Fruit and Vegetable Market of Bologna 20 Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration: The Case of Driescher Hof in Aachen 21 The European Medium-Sized City: The Characteristics of the Urban Form 22 The Idea of Space and Urban Sequences: The Case of Parma PART V: Mapping Social Space: Demographic Analysis as an Image of Urban Complexity 23 Mapping Urban Spaces with the Use of Physical, Digital, and Augmented Reality Models: Experiences from Applications in Architectural and Urban Education 24 The Urban Circle of Life of People with Disabilities: Mapping Urban Inconveniences 25 Multigenerational Spaces in Conceptual Urban Projects in Polish Cities AFTERWORD: Problems of the Contemporary City Index