Contains original references (literature, philosophy, cinema) not to be found in the disciplinary discourse Determines an open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies through a comparative analysis of global case studies Provides abstracts, introduction and brief conclusions for each chapter Contains an apparatus of 40 illustrations including color photographs, drawings and diagrams

Autorentext
Roberto Pasini (Arch UniFirenze, MArch Harvard, PhD UniFerrara/Polis) is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Monterrey, Mexico. His teaching, research, and practice focus on the relationships between urban space and anthropic landscape.

Inhalt
Introduction: Defining a Symbiotic Field.- Metropolitanism, Its Filiations, and Its Consequences.- The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity.- The Symbiotic Field in Ten Behaviors.- Miscegenation: Culture- and Region-Forming.- Gardens Grown Wild: In-Between Topography and Its Mythology.- Reconciling Cultural with Cognitive.- Tests for a Symbiotic Matorral.- Life and Death of '14 Strength': Agenda for the Next Landscape.- Afterword.