WIT Press


Complexity And Sustainability: Relief And Representation Of The New Urban Identity

Price

Free (open access)

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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