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Category Archives: urban phases
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IL FASCINO DISCRETO DELL’INTERSTIZIO URBANO – review essay
A seminar on “The Face and the City”
Friday February 26, 2021, h.9-11
A seminar given in the series “Chronotopes of the Face”
Full Programme here: Cronotopi_del_volto_FACETS_UNiTO
Urban crystallisation and the morphogenesis of urban territories (with Mattias Kärrholm)
Now out in Territory, Politics, Governance
At https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21622671.2021.1872040
Urban Phases: Crystallisation
Paper at TCS Philosophy & Literature Conference 2019, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, May 29th – June 2nd, 2019
Now published in City, Culture and Society
Abstract
An analysis of the city through its crystallising processes is here proposed. Because crystallisation involves phase transition, a review of the latter, as well of the notion of phase in its relation to order, is first submitted. Then the question is posed: Can we suggest that cities have phases? What would it imply to study cities as “phased beings”, or phased phenomena? Which characteristics of crystalline phases can prove most relevant for cities? The paper explores crystallisation as a lens for understanding spatial order, temporality, individuality and perception in the course, and in the context, of the urban process and urban life.
Keywords
Urban phases; Urban crystallisation; Crystal growth; Crystalline life; Crystallised cities; Urban perception; Urban individuality
