Poimenovanje urbane krajine kot orodje reapropriacije mesta

Throughout history humans have developed a rich vocabulary naming the specific geographical phenomena and landscape formations they lived with and have known for millennia. As humans take this natural landscape over, it does not disappear, but instead morphs into a new habitat – the built fabric – offering a new array of phenomena. By creating new place words we bring awareness to our urban surroundings and transform them into a perceivable social landscape. The rich complexity of the urban space and the liminal areas between the natural and the built is mostly unnamed. Road, street, avenue, skyscraper, square – this is the scope of our linguistic and cognitive abilities. But what about the variations which set them apart? How would these signifiers impact our perception of city space? This article tries to address place word formation as a potential opportunity to create a meaningful connection between the inhabitant and the city and as a means of reappropriation of the city through analysis of the generation of contemporary urban landscape and processes of naming places.Skozi zgodovino je človek oblikoval bogato besedišče, ki poimenuje posamezne geografske pojave in forme krajine, s katerimi je tisočletja živel in jih spoznaval. Ko si človek prisvoji naravno krajino, pa ta ne izgine, temveč postane nov habitat, grajeno tkivo, in tako ponuja drugačno paleto pojavov. S tvorjenjem novih izrazov za prostor ozaveščamo svojo urbano okolico ter jo pretvarjamo v zaznavno družbeno krajino. Bogastvo kompleksnega urbanega prostora in mejnih območij med naravnim in grajenim ostaja v veliki meri nepoimenovano. Cesta, ulica, avenija, stolpnica, trg – do sem naša jezikovna in kognitivna sposobnost še sežeta. Kaj pa vse majhne variacije, ki jih zaznamujejo in razločujejo med seboj? Kako bi ti označevalci vplivali na našo percepcijo prostora mesta? Članek s pomočjo analize načinov generiranja sodobne urbane krajine ter procesov poimenovanja prostora razišče prostorsko besedotvorje kot potencialno možnost vzgajanja pomenljive povezave med uporabnikom in mestom ter kot orodje reapropriacije mestnega prostora