Experience and conflict : the production of urban space / by Panu Lehtovuori.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο.

pt. 1. Concept city -- 1. Space distanced and objectified -- 2. Current conceptualisations of public urban space -- pt. 2. Moments of experience -- 3. Social space -- 4. Weak place -- pt. 3. Conflicts assembling space -- 5. Spatial dialectics -- 6. Public urban space as the event of assembly -- pt. 4. Hi-jacking Helsinki -- 7. Urban events producing space -- 8. Makasiinit--a lost opportunity -- pt. 5. Towards experiential urbanism -- 9. The experiential approach to urban planning -- 10. A new paradigm.

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist. This book propounds that, at present, this process is conducted in an artificial reality, 'Concept City', characterized by a simplified and outdated conception of space. It provides a constructive critique of the concepts, underlying the practices of planning and architecture and, in order to facilitate more dynamic, inclusive and subtle practices, it formulates a new theory about space in general and public urban space in particular. The central notions in this theory are temporality, experiment and conflict, which are grounded on empirical observations in Helsinki, Manchester and Berlin. While the book contextualizes Lefebvre's ideas on urban planning and architecture, it is in no way limited to Lefebvrean discourse, but allows insights to new theoretical work, including that of Finnish and Swedish authors. In doing so, it suggests and develops exciting new approaches and tools leading to 'experiential urbanism'.