The growth and development of Asian urban areas, particularly those in China, which has occurred with extreme rapidity in recent years, has resulted in changes in the landscape for the benefit of megacity construction. The development and use of new technologies have resulted in improved lifestyles for the inter-urban population, new infrastructure lines, and improved efficiency of public services, often at the expense of and in stark contrast to peripheral and rural neighbours. The over-scaling of the territory forces a dimension of travel and displacement in city space, measured in hours, during which we cross neighbourhoods connoted by substantial differences in urban landscape from one another. Nomads, are we travelling from one city to another, or are we always in the same one? In this centripetal hyper-motion, millions of people draw tangible maps from one place to another every day while always remaining in the same city; therefore, the contribution presents a graphic-perceptual reconstruction of some of the streets of the metropolis of Guangzhou, elements symbolising par excellence the journey, so different and immersed in such different urban contexts while still in the same city.
La crescita e lo sviluppo delle aree urbane asiatiche, in particolare quelle cinesi, avvenuta, negli ultimi anni, con estrema rapidità, ha determinato cambiamenti nel paesaggio a vantaggio della costruzione di megalopoli. Lo sviluppo e l’utilizzo di nuove tecnologie ha comportato un miglioramento dello stile di vita per la popolazione interurbana, nuove linee infrastrutturali, efficientamento dei servizi pubblici, spesso a discapito e in netto contrasto con le realtà limitrofe periferiche e rurali. La sovra-scala del territorio, costringe a dimensione di percorrenza e spostamento nello spazio- città, in una misura-tempo di ore in cui si attraversano quartieri connotati da differenze di paesaggio urbano sostanziali l’uno dall’altro. Nomadi, stiamo viaggiando da una città all'altra o siamo sempre nella stessa? In questo iper-moto centripeto ogni giorno milioni di persone tracciano mappe tangibili da un luogo all'altro rimanendo sempre nella stessa città; pertanto, il contributo presenta una ricostruzione grafico-percettiva di alcune delle strade della metropoli di Guangzhou, simbolo per eccellenza del viaggio, così diverso e immerso in contesti urbani così differenti pur sempre nella stessa città.
Documenting the Sensory Mosaic: An Integrated Methodological Proposal for the Analysis of Urban Antinomies in Guangzhou [Documentare il Mosaico Sensoriale: Una Proposta Metodologica Integrata per l'Analisi delle Antinomie Urbane a Guangzhou]
Montanari Greta
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;Suppa MartinaSecondo
;Marcantonio ChiaraUltimo
2025
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The growth and development of Asian urban areas, particularly those in China, which has occurred with extreme rapidity in recent years, has resulted in changes in the landscape for the benefit of megacity construction. The development and use of new technologies have resulted in improved lifestyles for the inter-urban population, new infrastructure lines, and improved efficiency of public services, often at the expense of and in stark contrast to peripheral and rural neighbours. The over-scaling of the territory forces a dimension of travel and displacement in city space, measured in hours, during which we cross neighbourhoods connoted by substantial differences in urban landscape from one another. Nomads, are we travelling from one city to another, or are we always in the same one? In this centripetal hyper-motion, millions of people draw tangible maps from one place to another every day while always remaining in the same city; therefore, the contribution presents a graphic-perceptual reconstruction of some of the streets of the metropolis of Guangzhou, elements symbolising par excellence the journey, so different and immersed in such different urban contexts while still in the same city.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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