Crítica imaginativa de la ciudad contemporánea

Andrés Di Masso Tarditti; Angela Castrechini

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v12n1.1002

Imaginative critique of the contemporary city

Authors

Andrés Di Masso Tarditti Universitat de Barcelona
Angela Castrechini Universitat de Barcelona

Abstract

In this article we introduce the contributions of different authors to a critique of contemporary urban phenomena. We begin pinpointing both the relevance and the epistemic limits of the city in the frame of the social sciences. We then develop a series of arguments that stress the main limitations of the dominant trend in environmental psychology dedicated to the study of urban phenomena. Consequently, we advocate an interdisciplinary, critique, reflexive and comprehensive approach to the study of the city. Finally, we synthesise the texts composing the monograph. The aim is to provide some materials for an epistemological, theoretical and methodological critique of urban environmental psychology, on the one hand, and to promote the imagination as a powerful and thorough instrument of knowledge, on the other hand.

Keywords

Critique, City, Imagination, Environmental psychology

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Author Biography

Angela Castrechini, Universitat de Barcelona

Departament de Psicologia Social