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T1 The Word Shrinks, the World Expands: Robert L., Thayer, Jr.
A1 Camerin, Federico
A1 Gastaldi, Francesco
K1 Regeneración urbana
K1 Urban regeneration
K1 3329 Planificación Urbana
AB Crises and urgencies are not new phenomena, as well as phases of expansion and contraction (or shrinkage). These dynamics are the essential base on which ground the Author of this paper reflected. His focus is specifically on the scientific and technological backgrounds of two quite different fields: petro-chemical geophysics and information technology, and their respective and opposite roles in “shrinking” or “expanding” the perceived and actual size, scale, and grain of the developed landscape. By putting together these two fields, planners can have the sufficient background to anticipate future land patterns that respond to the relocating effects of scarce, expensive, and renewable transportation and shipping fuels on the one hand, and the continued globalization of culture and corporate ownership on the other. This reflection, as highlighted in this special issue of CONTESTI, is pivotal in a context of a changing “new normal” of the 21st-century society. We must accept that the everyday life of people all over the world can be affected by unexpected disruptions, waves of crisis and recovery that may continuously create new equilibriums. Also, the world is, in some aspects, shrinking, but in other cases is expanding. How can we face such a situation? What can we expect as a result in terms of (re)configuration of cities and territories? In which world we would live in the (near) future?
PB Firenze University Press
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61629
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61629
LA eng
NO Contesti. Città, Territori, Progetti: Rivista di Urbanistica e Pianificazione del Territorio Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2023, (1), 213–222.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 08-ago-2024