The reading of the changes underway at the edges of contemporary cities is one of the most difficult subjects To tackle methodically. Proof of this is the descriptive literature produced on the topic, where depictions of an inextricable complexity and the suggestion of fragmentation, particularly amongst architects, have become true literary genres in themselves. The obvious obstacle is that the forms in which expansion takes place continuously evolve in time and space and seem beyond any rational, general law, while following a comprehensible process is an essential condition for the construction of a study method that can be communicated (and therefore of a design). The growing complexity of the phenomena that develop on the edges of the built environment, where rural areas prepare for change in ways that seem continually different, can be clearly recognised in post-industrial cities, but the uncertainty inherent in the tools we use to understand and monitor them was already apparent in the post-war period: the very period that attempted to create a limit to the irrationality of cities in chaotic expansion by developing new tools for understanding them.
The reading of the changes underway at the edges of contemporary cities is one of the most difficult subjects To tackle methodically. Proof of this is the descriptive literature produced on the topic, where depictions of an inextricable complexity and the suggestion of fragmentation, particularly amongst architects, have become true literary genres in themselves. The obvious obstacle is that the forms in which expansion takes place continuously evolve in time and space and seem beyond any rational, general law, while following a comprehensible process is an essential condition for the construction of a study method that can be communicated (and therefore of a design). The growing complexity of the phenomena that develop on the edges of the built environment, where rural areas prepare for change in ways that seem continually different, can be clearly recognised in post-industrial cities, but the uncertainty inherent in the tools we use to understand and monitor them was already apparent in the post-war period: the very period that attempted to create a limit to the irrationality of cities in chaotic expansion by developing new tools for understanding them.
OBSERVATION ON URBANGROWTH / Staël de Alvarenga Pereira Costa, ; Karina Machado de Castro Simão, ; Daan, Lammers; Ana Pereira Roders, ; Pieter van Wesemael, ; Tolga, Ünlu; Anna Irene Del Monaco, ; Strappa, Giuseppe; Ieva, Matteo; Maretto, Marco; Carlotti, Paolo; DEL MONACO, Anna. - STAMPA. - (2018).
OBSERVATION ON URBANGROWTH
Giuseppe Strappa;IEVA, MATTEO;Marco Maretto;Paolo Carlotti;Anna Del Monaco
2018
Abstract
The reading of the changes underway at the edges of contemporary cities is one of the most difficult subjects To tackle methodically. Proof of this is the descriptive literature produced on the topic, where depictions of an inextricable complexity and the suggestion of fragmentation, particularly amongst architects, have become true literary genres in themselves. The obvious obstacle is that the forms in which expansion takes place continuously evolve in time and space and seem beyond any rational, general law, while following a comprehensible process is an essential condition for the construction of a study method that can be communicated (and therefore of a design). The growing complexity of the phenomena that develop on the edges of the built environment, where rural areas prepare for change in ways that seem continually different, can be clearly recognised in post-industrial cities, but the uncertainty inherent in the tools we use to understand and monitor them was already apparent in the post-war period: the very period that attempted to create a limit to the irrationality of cities in chaotic expansion by developing new tools for understanding them.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
