TY - BOOK ID - 17597780 TI - Territories of urbanism : the project as knowledge producer AU - Viganò, Paola AU - Piccolo, Stephen PY - 2016 SN - 9782940222896 2940222894 PB - Lausanne, Switzerland : EPFL Press, DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - Urbanisme KW - Design urbain. KW - Designs and plans KW - Philosophy KW - Dessins et plans. KW - Philosophie. KW - Dessins et plans KW - City planning. KW - Urban planning KW - Urbanization KW - Theory. KW - Research. KW - Designs and plans. KW - 711.4(A) KW - 711.4(B) KW - Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; denken over de stedenbouw KW - Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening--ontwerpen van de steden KW - Cities and towns KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Projet d'urbanisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17597780 AB - This book addresses the ability of the design of the city and the territory to produce knowledge; this hypothesis pertains to the tools and the operations of design by which the research itself is constructed. To this end, the book crosses physical and conceptual territories as the result of direct explorations connected with a design practice that has produced original knowledge. The project contains, manipulates, and produces concepts as concrete forms of action in space that interpret, abstract and, at times, generalize. Its tools make it possible to cut through layers of differences and complexity like a knife. The project describes and reveals processes of individualization, as it recognizes situations and uncovers possibilities. It considers the future and then reflects on the city as the basis for an original form of knowledge and awareness. After the crisis of expert knowledge, and during a period of progressive marginalization and simplification of the practice of the architect and urban designers, a re-consideration of the epistemological status of the project is fundamental to rethinking its social role and developing a critical vision of the world. [Publisher] ER -