ACNOWLEDGMENTS
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From formal logic to informational logic Manuel Gausa Navarro
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The Sustainability of Aesthetics Marjan Colletti
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Cities in nature: beyond Sustainability Pino Scaglione
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INTRO Preface_The issue: Aesthetics of Sustainability
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PART I THE SELF-ORGANIZED CITY: ontology and hermeneutics 1.1. The theme of SUSTAINABILITY in complexity theory 1.1.1. Sustainability today: a container of empty meanings or an empty container of meanings? 1.1.2. Merleau–Ponty and the concept of nature as the primordial 1.1.3. Slavoj Žižek and ecology against Mother Nature 1.1.4. The question of the Eco-Modernist and the ‘good Anthropocene’ 1.1.5. The concept of ecology for Guattari
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1.2. The agency of AESTHETICS as ecological category and adaptive system 1.2.1. The aesthetics of sustainability today
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1.2.2. The three ecologies and the importance of the evolutionary approach: aesthetics as an ethic 1.2.3. The three ecologies and the importance of the evolutionary approach: aesthetics as an adaptive system 1.2.4. ‘We know more than we can tell’: aesthetics as a form of tacit knowledge 1.2.5. Relational Aesthetics and the intersubjectivity issue: aesthetics as social interstice 1.2.6. Neuroscience and the embodiment of space: aesthetics as embodied simulation 1.3. The Origins of COMPLEXITY THEORY in Urban Planning and Urban Design 1.3.1. Obsolete academics: typologies and typological thinking 1.3.2. The beginning of the fall: from the death of typologies to the rise of cellular automata 1.3.3. Order versus Chaos 1.3.4. Emergence and the temporal dimension. the Past: Self-organization in history 1.3.5. Emergence and the temporal dimension. the Present: Emergence and Emergency 1.3.6. Emergence and the temporal dimension. the Future: Technology, superfluous and seduction 1.4. The key for change: TRANSDISCIPLINARITY 1.4.1. Transdisciplinarity and new models 1.4.2. Transdisciplinarity and the passage from design to organization