City As Art

Experimental Documentary | 2012

شهر به مثابه یک اثر هنری – City as Art from Aliyar Rasti on Vimeo.

The meaning of “urban readability “is to simply recognize and interpret the urban components .And this concept is the most important factor to recognize the continuity between the urban components as Lynch says. In his point of view, city is like a readable book, and this reading helps habitant to retrieve their identities. So, sense of urban safety and acceptance of individualism in urban space, would be more acceptable and the sense of belonging to urban spaces and gaining identity from city can be achieved by reading the text of the city.

Camillo Sitte is one of the contemporary philosophers that recognizes the city as an art work and according to this , he named the urban architecture as “ spatial art “ . In his book ,” City Planning According to Artistic Principles” , he questioned the urban development attitudes based on machine design and introduce the technical dimension as a second dimension , and interpret that the real urban space is affected by aesthetic logic of art work . according to his theory urban space has an important role to secure the physical and mental needs , foster the public sentiment , pure happiness and joy , encourage and attract positive energy rely on “ Art and Culture “ . Accordingly, He considers the “view “as the most important criteria of urban environment and considers the view of pedestrian as an urban judging criterion.

The movie, “city as an art work “makes us audiences of a city that besides all of its confusion, you can still like it.

” Urban Art House ”