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From city air to urban space: passion and pollution
The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk has identified ‘making the air conditions explicit’ as an urgent task because the air is a cogent metaphor for the world in its interdependent, dynamic complexity, and failing health. The air is a natural phenomenon understood within a cultural framework. ‘City air’ has a specific cultural history that conjoins moral philosophy and empirical science. It can be understood both as a metaphor and as a physical entity, representing a way of being in the world as well as governing the quality of our existence. It has been replaced by ‘urban space’.
The historical conditions of air in the aftermath of the seventeenth-century revolution in science are identified here as a key moment in the transition from city air to urban space. The ‘air conditions’ implicit in city air represent the shared passions of a common entity understood in holistic and vitalist terms. They are quite different in character to the idea of free and unfettered space as a neutral container of air, whether wholesome or life threatening. The underlying question is, in what terms should we consider civic virtue: is it dependent on controlling the passions (avoiding social disease), or dependent on controlling pollution (avoiding waste management failure)? The question returns us to the problem of how we represent the air in civically minded architecture.
From city air to urban space: passion and pollution
The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk has identified ‘making the air conditions explicit’ as an urgent task because the air is a cogent metaphor for the world in its interdependent, dynamic complexity, and failing health. The air is a natural phenomenon understood within a cultural framework. ‘City air’ has a specific cultural history that conjoins moral philosophy and empirical science. It can be understood both as a metaphor and as a physical entity, representing a way of being in the world as well as governing the quality of our existence. It has been replaced by ‘urban space’.
The historical conditions of air in the aftermath of the seventeenth-century revolution in science are identified here as a key moment in the transition from city air to urban space. The ‘air conditions’ implicit in city air represent the shared passions of a common entity understood in holistic and vitalist terms. They are quite different in character to the idea of free and unfettered space as a neutral container of air, whether wholesome or life threatening. The underlying question is, in what terms should we consider civic virtue: is it dependent on controlling the passions (avoiding social disease), or dependent on controlling pollution (avoiding waste management failure)? The question returns us to the problem of how we represent the air in civically minded architecture.
From city air to urban space: passion and pollution
Mallinson, Helen (Autor:in)
The Journal of Architecture ; 19 ; 235-248
04.03.2014
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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