Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation Desimini Jill
Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation Desimini Jill As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Jill Desimini posits…
Specifikacia Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation Desimini Jill
Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation Desimini Jill
As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Jill Desimini posits a fundamental role for spatial design practice to transform abandoned urban landscapes through time. Cyclical City tells the stories behind these sites, from Philadelphia's Liberty Lands park to Lisbon's Green Plan, and it looks at the ways in which these narratives can be leveraged toward future engagement and use.
These themes are explored in five cities--Philadelphia, Berlin, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Saint Louis--and across centuries, from periods of great upheaval to She argues for approaches that promote the specific affordances of the land itself (hydrology, vegetation, topography, geology, infrastructural capacity, occupation potential); the importance of cyclical change; and the particularities of the cultural, political, and physical context.