#books #townplanning | Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda

Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda / editors, Sophie Wolfrum...[et al.].
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2018.
303 p. : il.
ISBN 9783035616019
/ EN / Libros / Sociología urbana / Urbanismo
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4 POR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083632368

[.en] Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples' urban characteristics - spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen - improvisation as a way of life. Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually. Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city - with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities - to cities with radically mixed urban functions.