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Imagining cities
Cities are not simply material or lived spaces, they are also spaces of the imagination and spaces of representation (Westwood, 1997).
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The public imaginary about cities is itself part constituted by media representations as much as by lived practices. Ideas about cities, are not simply formed at a conscious level, they are also a product of unconscious desires and imaginaries.
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Any representations and imaginaries are bound to be in a state of flux and will also be subject to contestation by those who feel excluded or on the margins of dominant imaginary.
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Imagination is powerful and translated into policy and through the mechanisms of governance it has its effects.
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The idea of the city as a crucible for ideas and imagination has a long history -back to the very origins of urbanism in fact.
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What makes cities extraordinary is that they contain sites where the senses are bombarded and these can be read as a source of pleasure -the Spice Market in Istanbul or the street markets of Hanoi, or displeasure, as in the rush hour spaces of underground stations.
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For pro-urbanists and city lovers, cities are imagined as spaces of opportunity, of the co-mingling of strangers, as spaces of excitement, difference, cosmopolitanism and interconnection, and as spaces of culture, engagement, enchantment, fluidity and vibrancy.
Anti-urban imaginaries…as a site of anomie, alienation, corruption, ill health, immorality, chaos, pollution, congestion and a threat to social order.
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Urban designs and city plans have often embodied, implicitly or explicitly, some version of anti-urbanism which evokes the city as a place to be tamed and ordered and made predictable.
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Gary Bridge & Sophie Watson, “Retext(ur)ing the city”, in City, vol.5, no.3, pp.350-362.
Imagining cities
Cities are not simply material or lived spaces, they are also spaces of the imagination and spaces of representation (Westwood, 1997).
…
The public imaginary about cities is itself part constituted by media representations as much as by lived practices. Ideas about cities, are not simply formed at a conscious level, they are also a product of unconscious desires and imaginaries.
…
Any representations and imaginaries are bound to be in a state of flux and will also be subject to contestation by those who feel excluded or on the margins of dominant imaginary.
…
Imagination is powerful and translated into policy and through the mechanisms of governance it has its effects.
…
The idea of the city as a crucible for ideas and imagination has a long history -back to the very origins of urbanism in fact.
…
What makes cities extraordinary is that they contain sites where the senses are bombarded and these can be read as a source of pleasure -the Spice Market in Istanbul or the street markets of Hanoi, or displeasure, as in the rush hour spaces of underground stations.
…
For pro-urbanists and city lovers, cities are imagined as spaces of opportunity, of the co-mingling of strangers, as spaces of excitement, difference, cosmopolitanism and interconnection, and as spaces of culture, engagement, enchantment, fluidity and vibrancy.
Anti-urban imaginaries…as a site of anomie, alienation, corruption, ill health, immorality, chaos, pollution, congestion and a threat to social order.
…
Urban designs and city plans have often embodied, implicitly or explicitly, some version of anti-urbanism which evokes the city as a place to be tamed and ordered and made predictable.
”
Gary Bridge & Sophie Watson, “Retext(ur)ing the city”, in City, vol.5, no.3, pp.350-362.
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