Amidst urban edges

Karimnia, Elahe

Abstract

Urban edges advance a reflection on human territoriality and the capacity of remaking territory in relation to public spaces. This social territory making includes a set of appropriation and consequences of presence in public space. Urban edges are important elements in urbanism as existing territories, which give visibility to human-making activities and therefore bear indeterminacy of everyday life. Immaterial social relations that grow, meet and inhabit hard surfaces of cities, such as walls can affect their function and meaning: as the most common form of separation to be a place addressing the public. These material and immaterial relations have overlapping territories: urban boundaries, which are in constant transition. Unlike walls and edges that are interpreted to passively divide rules and norms between two environments, urban boundaries narrate never-ending stories of transitions between two or even more entities. Urban boundaries are places where everyday control and communication exchange are exhibited and where public and private, formal and informal, regular and irregular, proper and unusual are interwoven.

Citation

Karimnia, E. (2022). Amidst urban edges. In S. Khandekar, & V. Bharne (Eds.), Streets For All – 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities (54-59). Bruil & van de Staaij

• Publication Date: Jun 29, 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 30, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 16, 2022
• Pages: 54-59
• Book Title: Streets For All – 50 Ideas for Shaping Resilient Cities
• ISBN: 978-81-954409-0-0
• Keywords: Streets, public life, liveable city, resilient city, urban form, infrastructure
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• Publisher URL: https://www.bruil.info/product/streets-for-all/
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