ABSTRACT
Fascination is a basic feature in numerous modern architectural and city planning debates, often correlated to the exaltation of size, elevation, recklessness or genuineness of architectural plans and their realizations. The discursive structuring of cities, the assessment as well as reassessment of urban ideas through the use of language is the central theme of our analysis. Initially, this involves words or phrases such as suburb, monotony or utopian model for cities, figures of argumentation including the concepts public vs. private, which all belong to linguistic worlds in which the field of criticism and urban socio-utopia is situated. In this context, urban development is an expression of contradictory discourses. Consequently, the discursive enunciations rapidly disappear behind objections and criticism both in horizontal and vertical discourse dimensions, in a space between ideas and voices. The reconstruction of semiotic evaluation processes between dreamland and wasteland in urban development is scientifically possible by means of an analysis of the discursive construction of urban spaces.
