Unimaginable hence unmanageable: new names for invisible urban places
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Unimaginable hence unmanageable: new names for invisible urban places
A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people’s perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen before. The geographer’s taxonomic effort to re-designate urban places and typologies involves a political and ideological content. Most urban spaces are unmanageable because they fit neither w...
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عنوان ژورنال: City, Territory and Architecture
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2195-2701
DOI: 10.1186/s40410-017-0065-1