City - A Narrative About Urban Dreams

Author: Shu Kewen
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Publish Date: 2007-02-08
Features: The ideal of urban utopia always involves abandoning the social masses and memory, looking ahead to reorganized spaces and design environments based on unclear future visions. However, the true value of life comes from relationships among people, including deceased relatives and neighbors, as they are an integral part of life. Thus, the value of life not only stems from imagination about the future but also from the delicate connections accumulated daily with the environment through the routines of life, death, and illness. All these form the essential foundation for emotional fulfillment and a harmonious sense of security. A good city should respond to these aspects. A new city provides its inhabitants with a fresh set of life principles and human understanding, compressing and distorting judgments from past lives in the face of prevailing urban ideals. How do people in the city reorganize their emotional content and reconstruct their life experiences outside their own logic of life? This book describes the evolving urban form through specific localized changes during the process of reconstruction.