A glossary of urban voids
| 1. Verfasser: |
Ripoll López, Sergio
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Berlin :
Jovis Verlag GmbH,
[2020].
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| Umfang/Format: |
239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783868596045 3868596046 |
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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.
