City - A Narrative About Urban Dreams

Author: Shu Kewen
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: The ideal of a city utopia always requires abandoning the social masses and memory, looking ahead to reorganized spaces and design environments based on a vague future vision. However, the true value of life comes from relationships among people, including deceased relatives and neighbors, as they are an integral part of life. Therefore, the value of life not only comes from imagination about the future but also from the fine connections accumulated day by day with the environment through the daily routines of birth, aging, illness, and death. All of these form the important source of emotional fulfillment and harmonious sense of security for people. A good city should respond to these aspects. A new city provides its inhabitants with a brand-new set of life principles and understanding of humanity, 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 the logic of their daily lives? This book describes the evolving urban form through specific localized changes during the process of reconstruction.