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The space of the city in reconstruction: the lawscapes of Barcelona and Berlin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2010

Chiara Mazzoleni
Chiara Mazzoleni*
Affiliation:
Urban Planning, University of Trento
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Abstract

The momentous changes that have affected European cities over the last two centuries have had profound consequences for the configuration of urban space. Urban planning and architecture, torn between the dialectically opposed forces of permanence and change, particularly in building practices and the use of urban space, have had an important influence on the material construction of cities. The outcome was a strong focus on the individual architectural artefact and, at the same time, the spread of a process of atopical fragmentation of urban space and the gradual loss of status of contact space. The latter suffered a process of deterioration due to disaffection and abandonment of the practice and a rapid shift of interest towards space decontextualised and standardised by the networks. The recent experiences of Barcelona and Berlin have been a reaction to this impoverishment of the meaning of the city, drawing on the heuristic contribution of the Italian school of urban analysis to recover the constituent elements of urban space and the conventions that have determined the appearance of European cities and are part of the tacit understanding of their inhabitants.

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 6 , Special Issue 3: Law, Movement, Space , September 2010 , pp. 229 - 242
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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