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Universal Singular : Public space design of the early 21st century
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The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same devices and thereby distance themselves from the urban context. The author analyzes ten outstanding contemporary designs of public spaces in Europe in terms of their function in the urban context and what materials are used for their implementation. In interviews with the designers she retraces the changes of the concepts during the design stage of the projects, underpinning her findings with numerous sketches. In addition, her research focuses on how the projects were received in the community.
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Mondialisation
Le terme de mondialisation correspond à un libre échange des marchandises, des capitaux, des services, des personnes, des techniques et de l'information. Il désigne le processus d'intégration des marchés et de rapprochement des humains qui résulte notamment de la libéralisation des échanges, du développement des moyens de transport de personnes et de marchandises, et des retombées des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) à l'échelle planétaire.
Citoyenneté mondiale
La citoyenneté mondiale est une citoyenneté non reconnue officiellement que s'attribuent les citoyens du monde, personnes qui estiment que les habitants de la Terre forment un peuple commun avec des droits et devoirs communs, en dehors des clivages nationaux, et qui placent l'intérêt de cet ensemble humain au-dessus d'intérêts locaux ou nationaux. Le concept général de citoyen du monde trouve son origine dans le stoïcisme, dont les philosophes sont les premiers à s'identifier comme citoyens du monde.
Democratic globalization
Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy. One of its proponents is the British political thinker David Held. In the last decade, Held published a dozen books regarding the spread of democracy from territorially defined nation states to a system of global governance that encapsulates the entire world. For some, democratic mundialisation (from the French term mondialisation) is a variant of democratic globalisation stressing the need for the direct election of world leaders and members of global institutions by citizens worldwide; for others, it is just another name for democratic globalisation.
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