This book explores new forms and modalities of relations between
people and space that increasingly affect the life of the city. The
investigation takes as its starting point the idea that in
contemporary societies the loss of our relationship with place is a
symptom of a breakdown in the relationship between ethics and
aesthetics. This in turn has caused a crisis not only in taste, but
also in our sense of beauty, our aesthetic instinct, and our moral
values. It has also led to the loss of our engagement with the
landscape, which is essential for cities to function.
The authors argue that new, fertile forms of interaction between
people and space are now happening in what they call the
intermediate space, at the border of urban normality and those
parts of a city where citizens experiment with unconventional
social practices. This new interaction engenders a collective
conscience, giving a new and productive vigor to the actions of
individuals and also their relations with their environment.
These new relations emerge only after we abandon what is called
the therapeutic illusion of space, which still exists today, and
which binds in a deterministic manner the quality of civitas, the
associative life of people in the city, to the quality of urban
space. Projects for the city should, instead, have as their
keystone the notion of social action as a return to a critical
perspective, to a courageous acceptance of social responsibility,
at the same time as seeking the generative structures of urban life
in which civitas and urbs again acknowledge each other.
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