The social fabric of cities / Vinicius M. Netto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moraes Netto, Vinicius, author.

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Design and the built environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Social aspects.

City planning.

Urbanization--Social aspects.

Urbanization.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xvi, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an innovative conceptual framework to reconsider some fundamental features of city-making as a social process: the place of cities in encounters and communications, in the randomness of events and in the repetition of activities that characterise societies, in doing so, it provides fresh analytical tools and theoretical insights to help advance our understanding of the networks of causalities, contingencies and contexts involved in practices of city-making. In a systematic attempt to bring urban analysis and research from the social sciences together, the book is organised around three vital yet relatively neglected dimensions in the social and material shaping of cities: (i) Cities as systems of encounter: an approach to urban segregation as segregated networks; (ii) Cities as systems of communication: a view of shared spaces as a means to association and social experience; (iii) Cities as systems of material interaction: explorations on urban form as an effect of interactivity, and interactivity as an effect of form. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Cities and the fabric of encounter 15

1 Restricting contact 17

2 Segregated networks in the city 37

Part 2 Cities and the fabric of communication 61

3 Communication and space 63

4 Urbanity as a dialogical achievement 83

5 (Re)claiming the city: polls and the public sphere 105

Part 3 Cities and the fabric of material interaction 123

6 Notes on the genesis of form 125

7 The social effects of architecture 153

8 The city as result: unintended consequences of architectural choices 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472470669

1472470664

OCLC:

938995513