Agogic Maps From Musical Phrasing to Enhancement of Urban Spaces

This book explores the value of the musical concept of “agogics” – the modification of regular rhythm to enhance expressive potential – in understanding urban spatial configurations within the current technological context and in developing urban maps tha

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SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology PoliMI SpringerBriefs

Editorial Board Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Stefano Della Torre, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Bianca M. Colosimo, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Tiziano Faravelli, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Roberto Paolucci, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Silvia Piardi, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Raffaele Pe

Agogic Maps From Musical Phrasing to Enhancement of Urban Spaces

123

Raffaele Pe Politecnico di Milano Milan Italy

ISSN 2191-530X SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences ISSN 2282-2577 PoliMI SpringerBriefs ISBN 978-3-319-48304-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48306-1

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Foreword: Tune-In City

The city is the problem; that much, we know. Since Tafuri’s demystification of the logic of metropolitan architecture in the late 1960s, in which the collusion between economic and cultural forces was denounced, architects have increasingly found difficulties in asserting their role to find social and political traction for their ideas. To be sure, Tafuri was not responsible for opening an unbridgeable chasm between city and architecture; rather he should be credited for lucidly detecting and mapping it. The shockwaves of this realization are still