Complexity And Sustainability: Relief And Representation Of The New Urban Identity
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
72
Pages
11
Published
2004
Size
782 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/SC040221
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
M. Sepe
Abstract
The new urban facts of the territory are not easily identifiable, not representable through a traditional planimetric relief, inexplicable with the common terminology, and are often invisible. At the same time, other elements of the territory exist whose identification is entrusted only to the sensitive perception that becomes an analysis of measures and a reference for planning. As a matter of fact, the contemporary city is the place of the complexity, the simultaneity and instability that determine situations of transivity and transformation. Therefore, researchers have developed, from other disciplines, ways to see, research, explain, and represent the city and the natural, mental, and virtual places in which we live, constructing proper methodologies of transversal and multilevel decodification and analysis. In order to give suitable
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