A reflexive reading of urban space / Mona A. Abdelwahab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdelwahab, Mona A., author.

Series:

New directions in planning theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--Planning.

Public spaces.

City planning--Social aspects.

City planning.

Space perception.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Providing a critique of the concepts attached to the representation of urban space, this ground-breaking book formulates a new theory of space, which understands the dynamic interrelations between the physical and social spaces while tracing the wider urban context. It offers a new tool to approach the reading of these interrelations through reflexive reading strategies that identifies singular reading fragments of the different spaces through multiple reader-time-space relations. The strategies proposed in the volume seek to develop an integrative reading of urban space through recognition of the singular (influenced by discourse, institution, etc.); and temporal (influenced by reading perspective in space and time), thereby providing a relational perspective that goes beyond the paradox of place in-between social and physical space, identifying each in terms of relationships oscillating between the conceptual, the physical and social content, and the context. In conclusion, the book suggests that space/place can be read through sequential fragments of people, place, context, mind, author and reader. Operating at different scales between conceptual space and reality, the sequential reading helps the recognition of multiplicity and the dynamics of place as a transformational process without hierarchy or classification"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Approaching a reading space

Arché-deconstruction

Cairo-Khora

The cultural park for children

Social Space

Arché-urban space.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409452287

140945228X

OCLC:

960838222