Download or read book Metaphors in Urban Planning written by Terttu Pakarinen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The post-industrial disintegration of urban form caused consternation during the latter half of the 20th century. The spatial organisation of the city seemed to be splintering into confusion. From this viewpoint, the breaking up of the hierarchy decentralisation appeared as a weakness and failure of regulation. The immediate reaction, in accordance with prevailing doctrines, was to increase regulation. When it materialised that there had been irrefutable changes in urban development, there were attemps to describe the new urban reality with various loose metaphors, such as collage, mosaic, archipelago, chaos, etc. In their own way these metaphors made it easier to perceive the new urban reality, although they were not able to explain development. Explanations of greater operational value arrived in the 1990s when new interpretations began to arise simultaneously from many different sources. In this book two such ways of explaining the urban reality are discussed in detail, the concept of Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts and Netzstadt by Franz Oswald and Peter Baccini. The discussion is framed firstly by the question of how metaphors are substantiated in both the philosophy of science and hermeneutics, and secondly by the historic model of the Garden City, which still today is often defended as an ideal in urban planning."--P. 4 cover.