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PDF here: 2022-05-29-IL FASCINO DISCRETO DELL’INTERSTIZIO URBANO

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The vegetative stratum is a layer of existence that is inherent not only in plants. Here, I propose to look at how vegetative life – or, the vegetative mode of existence – affects cities. The vegetative mode of existence is not focused on activities, routines, achievements. Here appears a city that is not industrial or industrious. When the industrious city retreats, or falls apart, the vegetative stratum becomes visible. The vegetative city is a city without any central nervous system. I suggest the interpretation of the vegetative city as a hopeful manifestation of the urban that only takes place when the time is ripe.

Also here

https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Interstices-The-Aesthetics-and-the-Politics-of-the-In-between/Brighenti/p/book/9781138257399

Now also on googlebooks: https://books.google.it/books?id=Xw2OCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Also here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FB566BA4DF4C751868F0239B3C06AF87

and here: urban-interstices

A review of the Urban Interstices collection by Margarethe Kusenbach, published in The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Volume 39, Issue 3, pages 651–653, May 2015:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12239/abstract

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The review is by Ella Harris (U. of London) and has been recently published in Urban Research & Practice. Here it is.

Introduction

Book available at : http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472410016

Fulltext also here

A couple of reviews published in : Urban Research & Practice and IJURR