A glossary of urban voids

1. Verfasser: Ripoll López, Sergio , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin : Jovis Verlag GmbH, [2020].
Umfang/Format: 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface.
  • A glossary of urban voids
  • What does the term urban void imply?
  • How to define something without naming it?
  • What is the image of the urban void?
  • Notes regarding the structure of the essay
  • 1.
  • Urban Voids.
  • Vacancy
  • Voids of the urban fabric
  • On the origins of the term urban void
  • "Terrain Vague"
  • Internal yet external to the city
  • The exterior of a pervasive interior
  • 2.
  • An Alternative Type of Public Space.
  • Terrain vague versus public space
  • Open or public?
  • Accessibility
  • The conundrum of public property
  • Publicness out of emptiness
  • A return to culture? A return to nature?
  • 3.
  • Intervals of Space.
  • Holes within the continuous city fabric
  • States of suspension
  • Curation as publicness
  • Self-determination as publicness
  • Recirculation as publicness
  • 4.
  • Gaps of Time.
  • Is temporality an intrinsic characteristic or an emerging quality?
  • Interruptions within hegemonic spatial discourses
  • Temporary and autonomous zoning
  • Extracted openness and inserted publicness
  • 5.
  • The Whiteout Effect.
  • What effects does a whiteout process have?
  • Opportunities in inherent exteriors
  • Subjectivities from places outside of culture
  • Reflections of empty mirrors
  • Inversions of representations
  • 6.
  • Unspecified and Underspecified.
  • Neither this nor that
  • Places that just are and that are designed for people to just be
  • The unnamable complex
  • Unspecified programs
  • Underspecified grounds
  • We know what they look like
  • 7.
  • Unneutral Neutrality.
  • Patterned reality
  • Neutrality as divorce between intention and act
  • Neutrality as commitment
  • Neutral buffers
  • Blankness as break between frame and content
  • Blankness as commitment
  • Blank or empty spaces
  • 8.
  • Voids as Things.
  • A thing is a hole in a thing it is not
  • How to design a void
  • Protecting the void I
  • Protecting the void II
  • Neglecting reconciliation
  • Neglecting codification.