Suburban Shopping Mall as an Urban Fabric
In order to read a very complex phenomenon, some concepts that proved to be fundamental in the study of historical urban fabrics are used here. Their use, although mediated and updated in relation to a particular study object, is justified by the convicti
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Suburban Shopping Mall as an Urban Fabric
It is possible to read the formation and first transformation of territorial structures through a fundamental dyad of opposite and complementary terms composed by ‘routes’ and ‘settlements’, linked to motion and stopping according to the primordial needs of man to feed and protect himself, attributing to the term ‘settlement’ the meaning of temporary or stable structure consisting of a set of dwellings organically related to a complementary productive pertinent area (Strappa et al. 2003, 17).
In order to read a very complex phenomenon, some concepts that proved to be fundamental in the study of historical urban fabrics are used here. Their use, although mediated and updated in relation to a particular study object, is justified by the conviction that even though changing the study object, some expressions and settlement modalities, the anthropic behavior in living and transforming the territory can be traced back to a general nucleus that is common and shared by men of all times and places. This concept is meaningful in the diatopic and diachronic sense. The description of the process elements is organized in dyadic couples, which are formed by routes and settlements or nodalities,1 on the one hand, and by base and special elements or building on the other. The description is also developed according to three different scales: territorial/urban; aggregate/fabric and building/commercial unit. The identification and description of the elements organized in dyadic couples at different scales as the subject of this chapter, while making specific references to previous phases of the formative/transformative process, relate especially to the current phase, and thus describes today’s mall understood as a suburban fabric with commercial specialization. At the end of each paragraph, a graphic scheme accompanies the textual description of elements. 1 Nodality, generated
at the intersection of two or more continuous, is considered in the book as the complementary and opposite term of routes. It contains potentially the notion of Polarity, being the latter’s results of a specialization and sublimation process of the former.
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2.1 Territorial and Urban Scale As regards to the dyadic couple formed by routes and nodalities, at the territorial/urban scale, two groups of elements can be identified (Fig. 2.4): – Routes, which—seen within an interscalar perspective—constitutes simultaneously territorial structural elements and load-bearing elements for the urban organism; this group includes, in the current contemporary process phase, mostly highly specialized routes (e.g.: highways, expressways, motorways, etc.); – Nodalities, a group that includes settlements, characterized by specialization and functional segregation. Whether they are settlement
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