Urban and Landscape Perspectives - Springer
Series Editor: Giovanni Maciocco
Aims and Scope
The Urban and Landscape Perspectives series aims at
nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and territory and devising and
applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social
landscapes.
The main themes of the series are developed around the
projectual dimension, with the objective of visualizing both the city and the
territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial
dimension as the city’s space of communication and negotiation.
The series examines emerging problems that characterize the
dynamics of city development, like the new fresh relations between urban
societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equality, the
project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social
cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of
urban development.
Concerned with advancing theories on the city, the series
resolves to welcome articles that feature a pluralism of disciplinary contribution
studying formal and informal practices on the project for the city and seeking
conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the
problems inherent in the profound transformation of contemporary urban landscapes.
Metodi del Territorio - Franco Angeli Edizioni
Series Editor: Giovanni Maciocco
Editorial Board: Michael Batty, Dino Borri, Arnaldo Cecchini, Xavier Costa, Francesco Indovina, Carlo Olmo, Pier Carlo Palermo, Nuno Portas, Bernardo Secchi, Thomas Sieverts, Ray Wyatt.
Editorial Committee: Paola Pittaluga, Gianfranco Sanna, Silvia Serreli, Francesco Spanedda
Publishing Assistants: Samanta Bartocci, Laura Lutzoni, Michele Valentino
Aims and Scope
Methods for the Territory is an expression that indicates almost the belonging
of methods to the territory, methods for the city project, that take the
territory on as a centre of reasoning, methods that explore the territory as a
field of potentialities for the renewal of urban life. The environmental
dimension reminds us also that the city is of the territory due to the
environmental interdependence that characterises its relations and are at the
basis of the environmental quality of urban life. The territory is no longer
the set of conditions external to the city, for the context has become an
internal horizon of the city. We may therefore say that the city coincides with
the territory; it is its contextual universe.
Precisely for this reason, it is not a matter of creating separation between
urban morphologies, but of trying to see the city in all the different spatial
forms in which the contemporary urban condition is expressed, exploring the
conditions of territoriality that will necessarily be incorporated in the city.
Understood in this sense, the territory indicates inclination towards the
project for settlement. Territory meant as a place of recognition of the
spatial differences of the urban, the place of retrieval of the ethos, of all
that which was not at the centre, not in the polis; the deep matrix of the
primary elements of inhabiting.
In this perspective, the project for space may be imagined as a complex process
towards understanding contemporary public space, a process that by adopting a
cognitive conception of the project favours a shared background in which all
the inhabitants of a territory have a voice to construct a true city. In this
sense the project for the territory is the project for the city.
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City, Territory and Architecture - Springer
Editor in Chief: Giovanni Maciocco
Editorial Board: Michael Batty, Dino Borri, Arnaldo Cecchini, Beatriz Colomina, Xavier Costa, Teddy Cruz, Mike Davis, John Forester, Francesco Indovina, Diane Lewis, Harvey Molotch, Piercarlo Palermo, Antoine Picon, Bernardo Secchi, Thomas Sieverts, Edward Soja, Michael Sorkin, Frederick Steiner, Silvano Tagliagambe, Ray Wyatt,
Associate Editors: Antonello Marotta, Paola Pittaluga, Gianfranco
Sanna, Silvia Serreli, Francesco Spanedda
Aims and Scope
With its focus on the pluralism of positions and project
perspectives regarding the city, territory and architecture, this journal aims
to open up an interdisciplinary debate on the relational nature of projects for
spaces where people settle and interrelate.
A comparison between various scientific fields is therefore
encouraged, also involving knowledge that was previously to some extent
implicit or neglected by urban projects, but that has gradually increased in
importance and sometimes become essential for exploring new ways of conceiving
of urban space in the contemporary society.
The City, Territory and Architecture journal (CTA)
is dedicated to sharing scientific (theoretical and applied) knowledge and
positions on spaces of city and territory. Its primary goal is to explore the
conceptual and physical relations between city, territory and architecture.
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