Articles

To design is to design oneself

This article begins with the analogy between work in philosophy and work in architecture proposed by Wittgenstein, based on the idea that in both cases we are faced with work on ourselves and on the constructi...

Authors: Silvano Tagliagambe

What ever is happening to urban planning and urban design? Musings on the current gap between theory and practice

Over the last decades, the gap between disciplinary dreams and real outcomes has been growing in the field of urban planning and urban design. Great difficulties are evident in problematic contexts as the Ital...

Authors: Pier Carlo Palermo

State, citizenship, and common good: British idealists’ influence on social philosophy and planning culture

This paper is part of an investigation of the relationship between planning and citizenship, and considers the contribution of British Idealists because it advances of almost a century the contribution given b...

Authors: Luigi Mazza

The future of the city from Science to Science Fiction and back (and beyond)

There are many ways of imagining the future of the city. We can start with the growth of urbanisation, which envisages that in 2050 more than two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. And from th...

Authors: Arnaldo Cecchini

Public art and the making of urban space

Following in the footsteps of seminal studies like E. W. Soja Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (2000) or Miwon Kwon One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity (2004),...

Authors: Félix Duque

Spatial primitives and knowledge organization in planning and architecture: some experimental notes

Cities and territories share structural references to a common environmental ontology, in which space perception and representation play a major role. Many human abilities deal with space management, whose ont...

Authors: Dino Borri, Domenico Camarda and Rossella Stufano

The territory as an intermediate space

Authors: Giovanni Maciocco