Two Sides of Relationality: Body and City

In the history of the western modern era, which faced with drastic changes in science, economy, politics, and art perspectives, ontological and an aesthetical correlation between city and body turn into a mechanic and meaningless structure. This changing is clearly seen “new city designs” of architects and city planners. Conflicted between sacred, tradition and modernity creates strange meaning about body and city relations as Sennett said: “there is a strange destiny when body language has been translated city space”. This destiny signified that perceiving body is how the city is perceived. In this article, Two Sides of Relationality: Body and City, we discuss how body images translate into city plans while inquiring the Ancient Athen, the Middle Age Roma, the Renaissance Venice, the New Age Paris, and Modern-Postmodern cities in the context of 20th century. Our argument is “cities have an onto-anthropologic dynamic space rather than mechanic-static spaces”. We bring this idea up for discussion via philosophical anthropology and city planning theories in terms of understanding of body imaginations which underlies background of global cities