Urban Design and Dilemmas of Space

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ID4475619
AuthorsAli Madanipour (0000-0002-9083-146X, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume14
Issue3
Pages331-355
Publication date1996-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d140331
OpenAlexW2026414320
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited34

My aim in this paper is to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. Social scientists, geographers, architects, urban planners, and designers use the term space in their academic and professional involvement with the city. But when they meet each other their discourse seems to be handicapped partly because of a difference in their usage and understanding of the concept of space. I will argue that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication can become possible, we need to confront such fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. I will argue for a concept of space which would refer to our objective, physical space with its social and psychological dimensions, a dynamic conception which accommodates at the same time constant change and embeddedness, and that can only be understood in monitoring the way space is being made and remade, at the intersection of the development processes and everyday life

Architectural engineering · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Everyday life · Fragmentation (computing · Intersection (aeronautics · Shared space · Social science · Sociology · Transport engineering · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Engineering · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology

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