People and space : new forms of interaction in the city / Giovanni Maciocco and Silvano Tagliagambe

Include bibliographical reference and Index.

Background: the Therapeutic Illusion of Space -- The Crisis of Aesthetics and the “Death of the Landscape” -- The Aesthetic Crisis as the Crisis of the Glance -- Projectual Intention and Collective Will -- What We Want or the Kitsch City and the City of Conformism -- The Loss of the Centre -- The Dialectic of Recognition: Places and Friction -- The Local-Supralocal Relationship -- Connective Intelligence and the Concepts of Identity and Belonging -- The Relationship between Individual Subjects and the “Community of Practice” -- City Project and Structure-Subjects -- Dissolution of the Dual City, or the New Suburbanism -- Changes in the Communication Model: from Jakobson to Lotman -- Intermediate Space as the Space for Effective Communication -- Mundialisation, Globalisation, Localisation -- The Border “Takes Shape” -- The City Project: intermediate Space and Symbol -- Project as Social Action: the Art of Moving the Boundary of the Body -- The City as an Intermediate World between Global and Local -- The Eye and the Brain -- Civitas Alone can Save the Urbs.

Some believe the loss of our relationship with place reflects the breakdown in the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. The authors of this book disagree; they explore new, fertile forms of interaction between people and space in our cities.