
THE SENSUAL METROPOLIS A sensory metropolis constitutes a response to the urgent question of the direction contemporary urban planning should take. More than a collection of buildings, it is a shared experience, made up of impressions and memories, where sounds, smells and images mix. [ + ]
THE SENSUAL METROPOLIS
A sensory metropolis constitutes a response to the urgent question of the direction contemporary urban planning should take. More than a collection of buildings, it is a shared experience, made up of impressions and memories, where sounds, smells and images mix. From Genoa to Barcelona, it offers a quality of life which depends on a sensory organization of space.
[ - ]THE COAST AS LANDSCAPE Here, like elsewhere, unchecked urban developments over the past thirty years have profoundly altered the landscape. However, the motley chaos of infrastructure and buildings has not eclipsed the powerful leitmotif of the coastal horizon and the enduring presence of the landscape: the Mediterranean Arc can be understood without nostalgia as a sensory conurbation strewn with omnipresent fragments of landscape. [ + ]
THE COAST AS LANDSCAPE
Here, like elsewhere, unchecked urban developments over the past thirty years have profoundly altered the landscape. However, the motley chaos of infrastructure and buildings has not eclipsed the powerful leitmotif of the coastal horizon and the enduring presence of the landscape: the Mediterranean Arc can be understood without nostalgia as a sensory conurbation strewn with omnipresent fragments of landscape.
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A LEISURE ECONOMY Today, leisure hours and work hours are increasingly liable to overlap. The Mediterranean arc is a region with rhythms for each season, as much for residents as for tourists. [ + ]
A LEISURE ECONOMY
Today, leisure hours and work hours are increasingly liable to overlap. The Mediterranean arc is a region with rhythms for each season, as much for residents as for tourists. A year-round leisure economy has thus emerged.
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