parole!

this is a fun place to play.
A "dictionary on the contemporary city"

For instance, città analoga [definition]
City existing in the collective memory, made up from the sum of projects, even not built and the transposition of MONUMENTS. The projects as the monuments are given by the history of architecture and of the city, their composition giives birth to a city that w recognize, but that is new. To clarify this concept Rossi uses the example of the perspective of the painter Canaletto that represents a project done by palladio for the Ponte of Rialto in Venice, placed next to the basilica of Vicenza and the Palazzo Chiericati, as if it was one real urban environment. For Rossi it is possible, in the same way to, build a theory of deign in which the elements are prefixed and their combination leads way to new and original meanings.

Here's the picture they give:


It's tempting to spend my days adding to this list.
The first I would add, is Xenakis' VILLE COSMIQUE. It's listed in the dictionary as 1968 (Xenakis wrote his essay in '64) and as relating to Russian utopia ...