Pieszy, kierowca, pasażer, flaneur. Percepcja dominant we współczesnej przestrzeni miejskiej

Global cities and mega-cities, virtual cities and post-situational cities of New Town development became abstract ideas, describing ideas impossible for individual perception, highly surpassing the perceptive abilities of man. Over-scaling urban environment over what one is able to perceive and connect into full, bears new aesthetical theories in which city tissue becomes a background, coulisse without hierarchy. Rules of aesthetic anarchy begin to rule the city perception and a system of accent, marks and dominants stops bonding urban space, because a compact picture of a city simply ceases to exist. Accents, marks and dominants become a set of non hierarchized sections of space with defined charm, climate, "city spirit", "flowers on a meadow of a city" - but do not direct, do not inform, stop being a reference system. A city dweller becomes a wanderer - flaneur, perceiving that what he wants to see, and a wander in the city becomes to be a form of not orientated meditation, devoid of direction and aim.

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