Thinking about the contemporary city

The notion of the 'urban', which encompasses a diversity of territorial configurations that are difficult to synthesise, is in practice often still reduced to a conventional representation compromised between the medieval city and the industrial city, which dominates the citizen's imagination and therefore conditions the architect's and urban planner's instrumental apparatus. The book is based on two texts that discuss the contemporary city, reflecting on and proposing urban planning tools and principles for understanding it, hopefully contributing to the exercise of planning/design, and calling for recognition of an urban reality that has not yet been recognised as a specific 'figure', either among architects/urban planners or by the public bodies responsible for land use planning.

Autorentext
Sara Sucena is an architect, PhD in Urban Planning and Professor at the Fernando Pessoa University. She is a researcher at CEAU-FAUP and a regular editor of the magazine 'A Obra Nasce' (UFP). She worked as a freelance professional until 2005, mainly in the field of town planning, with a special interest in the evolution, morphology(ies) and design of the contemporary city.

Klappentext

The notion of the 'urban', which encompasses a diversity of territorial configurations that are difficult to synthesise, is in practice often still reduced to a conventional representation compromised between the medieval city and the industrial city, which dominates the citizen's imagination and therefore conditions the architect's and urban planner's instrumental apparatus. The book is based on two texts that discuss the contemporary city, reflecting on and proposing urban planning tools and principles for understanding it, hopefully contributing to the exercise of planning/design, and calling for recognition of an urban reality that has not yet been recognised as a specific 'figure', either among architects/urban planners or by the public bodies responsible for land use planning.