Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Projecting Shkodra |
| Subtitle of host publication | Operative Fragments in-between Lake, Rivers and Sea |
| Editors | Besnik Aliaj, Loris Rossi, Enrico Porfido |
| Publisher | Polis University; IKZ, Research and Development Institute; OMB, Observatory of Mediterranean Basin |
| Pages | 228-233 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-9928-4459-8-8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
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The Mediterranean City-World. / Pasini, Roberto.
Projecting Shkodra: Operative Fragments in-between Lake, Rivers and Sea. ed. / Besnik Aliaj; Loris Rossi; Enrico Porfido. Polis University; IKZ, Research and Development Institute; OMB, Observatory of Mediterranean Basin, 2019. p. 228-233.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - The Mediterranean City-World
AU - Pasini, Roberto
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - After entropic centuries following the dissolution of the Roman empire, Abulafia’s paradigm of the Third Mediterranean describes from a historical perspective the consolidation of a new regime of space-production based on urban centers around the venerable basin. In the twelfth century, the Mediterranean is, according to Abulafia, a crossable surface contained by narrow edges dotted with towns and cities. Shores opposed by overt religious and political conflicts are connected by myriads of commercial fluxes. Tolerated since mutually beneficial, the commerce is vector of ideas and expressions between permanently distinct cultures. These intense interactions imprint an urban system onto the coastal topographies of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. The global switch from a polycentric to a diffusive settlement mode, that is from urban to regional space production, has been commented by an extended literature alongside the demise of the sensed border between city and countryside. In the face of the global diffusion of extensive regional settlements, an urban-based attitude in space-production at the geographic scale is still recognizable around the Mediterranean. Bearing on the medieval travelogues of Ibn Jubayr and Benjamin de Tudela, this paper elaborates a design-oriented narrative on the space-production regime introduced by Abulafia’s model of the Third Mediterranean.
AB - After entropic centuries following the dissolution of the Roman empire, Abulafia’s paradigm of the Third Mediterranean describes from a historical perspective the consolidation of a new regime of space-production based on urban centers around the venerable basin. In the twelfth century, the Mediterranean is, according to Abulafia, a crossable surface contained by narrow edges dotted with towns and cities. Shores opposed by overt religious and political conflicts are connected by myriads of commercial fluxes. Tolerated since mutually beneficial, the commerce is vector of ideas and expressions between permanently distinct cultures. These intense interactions imprint an urban system onto the coastal topographies of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. The global switch from a polycentric to a diffusive settlement mode, that is from urban to regional space production, has been commented by an extended literature alongside the demise of the sensed border between city and countryside. In the face of the global diffusion of extensive regional settlements, an urban-based attitude in space-production at the geographic scale is still recognizable around the Mediterranean. Bearing on the medieval travelogues of Ibn Jubayr and Benjamin de Tudela, this paper elaborates a design-oriented narrative on the space-production regime introduced by Abulafia’s model of the Third Mediterranean.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-9928-4459-8-8
SP - 228
EP - 233
BT - Projecting Shkodra
A2 - Aliaj, Besnik
A2 - Rossi, Loris
A2 - Porfido, Enrico
PB - Polis University; IKZ, Research and Development Institute; OMB, Observatory of Mediterranean Basin
ER -