Fundamental Trends in City Development

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic trends of the city are investigated; "e;discomposed"e;, "e;generic"e; and "e;segregated"e; phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?