Critical Spaces. Contemporary Perspectives in Urban, Spatial and Landscape Studies.

Abstract

This book relates spatial existence to the challenges arising from the critcal times we are living and from the supposedly degrading moral nature of our societies. It contains contributions from architectural theory and education, urban, spatial and regional studies, as well as cultural landscape studies. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework about our most crucial spaces and critically addresses issues in the context of today s major cultural, moral, political, economical, ecological, ideological, and spiritual crises. Essays by well known international scholars provide a revolutionary spectrum of new ideas and developments in architecture, spatial planning and landscape studies. The authors, in their pursuit of new ideas that can built up on the fundamental practice of environmental studies, take into account such diverse themes as architectural history, theory, philosophy, architectural and urban studies education, chronotopes, cultural landscape studies, urban and spatial planning.