Torres Seville: Through the Urban Void

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-24239-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten

Urban voids are spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, and can be springboards to foster change, creativity and political action. The author describes how the void in the city intervenes in place-making, and uses the example of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville, Spain as a case study which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and an influential urban type in Western planning. In studying the Alameda de Hércules he examines the concepts of liminality, third space, boundaries, fetishisation, ritualisation and bricolage, and presents the idea of ‘urban void’ as a new way to explore possibility and potential in vacant or derelict spaces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Torres, Miguel

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ch. 1 Introduction.

Ch. 2 What and where are the urban voids.

Ch. 3 The bricolage of an urban void into an urban space: Seville and the Alameda as colonial centres in the 16th Century.

Ch. 4 Two-way urbanism: the struggle between enlightenment and religiosity and the reformulation of the Alameda de Hércules after the American experiment.

Ch. 5 A new void: the portrait of the long decay of the Alameda de Hércules from the 19th Century to Francoism.

Ch. 6 From a liminal space to a space for liminality. The Alameda as a centre for contested lifestyles in the rise of democracy.

Ch. 7 Conclusions. The Alameda de Hércules in its new reality. Lessons learned from an urban space.