Abdelwahab A Reflexive Reading of Urban Space

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-18696-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Planning Theory

Providing a critique of the concepts attached to the representation of urban space, this ground-breaking book formulates a new theory of space, which understands the dynamic interrelations between the physical and social spaces while tracing the wider urban context. It offers a new tool to approach the reading of these interrelations through reflexive reading strategies that identifies singular reading fragments of the different spaces through multiple reader-time-space relations. The strategies proposed in the volume seek to develop an integrative reading of urban space through recognition of the singular (influenced by discourse, institution, etc.); and temporal (influenced by reading perspective in space and time), thereby providing a relational perspective that goes beyond the paradox of place in-between social and physical space, identifying each in terms of relationships oscillating between the conceptual, the physical and social content, and the context. In conclusion, the book suggests that space/place can be read through sequential fragments of people, place, context, mind, author and reader. Operating at different scales between conceptual space and reality, the sequential reading helps the recognition of multiplicity and the dynamics of place as a transformational process without hierarchy or classification.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdelwahab, Mona A.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Threshold

Part One - Three Reading Spaces

Chapter one - Approaching a reading space

Chapter two - Arché-deconstruction

Chapter three - Cairo-Khora

A Turning Point

Part Two - Three Reflexive Readings

Chapter four - The Cultural Park for Children

Chapter five - Social Space

Chapter six - Arché-urban space

To be continued.

References

Über Autor(innen)

Mona A. Abdelwahab is an Assistant Professor in Architecture, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design at the Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt. She received her PhD degree in Architecture from Newcastle University, UK, where she is currently a visiting research fellow working with Prof Emeritus Patsy Healey. She followed her post-doc studies at Department of Spatial Planning, University of Groningen, NL, where she co-founded with Prof. Gert de Roo ‘AESOP-YA Booklet series: Conversations In-Planning theory’. She is also cofounder and managing editor of ‘Arcplan’: Arabic cities planning e-journal.