The volume brings together contributions by both leading scholars and young academics with a particular experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection on this central theme, though from varied disciplinary and experimental backgrounds. Leading academics like A. Mela (Prof. of Territory and Environment Sociology, University of Turin), S. Tagliagambe (Prof. of Philosophy and Science, University of Sassari), G. Maciocco (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Alghero, Italy) and P. Pittaluga have accumulated long-time experience in developing environmental approaches within Philosophy, Sciences, Environmental Planning and Art. Researchers like I. Doucet, N. Janssens and K. Boon in their turn bring in approaches related to specific European contexts.
Table des matières
The Territorial Future of the City.- The Dilation of the Concept of ‘Inhabit’ and the City/Territory Relationship.- Planning in Search of Ground: Committed Muddling Through or a Critical View from Above? 1 .- The Polycentric City and Environmental Resources.- Images of Local Societies and Projects for Space.- Critical Design – The Implementation of ‘Designerly’ Thinking to Explore the Futurity of Our Physical Environment.- Imagining the Re-/Co-production of a Hybrid Territory: Testing Sustainable Concepts of Landscape Development in Roeselare-West.- Derelict Places as Alternative Territories of the City.