The Sensuous City. Reflections on the Poetics of Urban Experience

[RE]STITCH TAMPA, Actar, Essay, High Density, Juhani Pallasmaa, Middle Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

City, City mutations, Essay, Florida, Haptic City, Invisible cities, New Statements on Nature, Organoleptic architecture, Resilient cities, Tampa, Urban Paradigms, USA

Excerpt from (Re)Stitch Tampa. Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City with Ecologies, 2017

https://lccn.loc.gov/2016946867

This publication critically examines these issues through essays, in addition to showcasing selected competition entries, the results of [re] Stitch Tampa. The discourse distills the design schemes and examines their possibilities as viable alternative urban models for development, which reconsider the relationship of landscape to the city and urban redevelopment. It also proposes how the schemes might operate as transformative urban design agents and as the underlying connective tissue which [re] stitch the city to the river and bring the river and its ecologies into the city.