Keywords

• In the opening comment to the first journalâ€
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• s issue
• the â€
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• critiqueâ€
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• included in the title is to be regarded as a rigorous form of empirical attention to situations and contexts
• and â€
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• spatial orderingsâ€
• 
• are to be handled within the field of urban studies and spatial planning
• looking back at least at two very influential conceptions (Schmitt and Simmel). The journalâ€
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• s aim
• in such a perspective
• is studying how cities and territories are changing according to a vision of space as complex network
• physical and virtual
• dealing with environmental issues
• on one hand
• and societal changes due to ict
• on the other
• where different subjectivities encounter and clash. It is a different task compared to â€
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• cru â€
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• Critica della Razionalità Urbanisticaâ€
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• 1994-2008. Today
• starting from space means looking for a new encounter between urban research and spatial planning
• in a critical perspective traced by three challenges spatial orderings would deal with: beyond democratic deliberation and mere shared decision
• assuming an emotional perspective to understand relations of power/knowledge concerned with new communicative practices
• beyond tolerance and unconditioned hospitality
• towards pragmatic and responsive practices of recognition of otherness in the urban
• beyond sustainability
• towards a new conception of habitability