Contemporary living is increasingly marked by different kinds of associations, collective but not necessarily long-lasting actions, and either little or very determined communalities. This paper will discuss forms of living that reject individualism and shun communities. Indistinct forms, based on “staying side by side, walking in step” which Bauman described as “a desperate need for ‘networking’”, and Sennett as “the force of wandering emotions shifting erratically from one target to another”. Characterised by values such as ecology, frugality, reciprocity and solidarity. We be-lieve that the key issue is to understand whether these forms are capable, as they say they are, of metaphorically rebuilding the city. In other words, whether they can implement a different concept of urbanity and public space by adopting the role played in late capitalist cities by conflict, ration-ality, functionalism, and the market. To tackle the problem we must first understand how they affect three different issues: the first involves changes in the values assigned to living; the second, the new logic of spatial organisation; the third, the revision of the notion of public and its political conse-quences. We will deal with these three issues by referring to case studies investigated in a multidis-ciplinary research carried out from 2011 to 2013 at the Polytechnic Schools of Turin and Milan and the University of Milan.

Are shared spaces able to rebuild the City? / Bianchetti, Anna Maria Cristina. - In: SCIENZE DEL TERRITORIO. - ISSN 2284-242X. - 3:(2015), pp. 52-58. [10.13128/Scienze_Territorio-16249]

Are shared spaces able to rebuild the City?

BIANCHETTI, Anna Maria Cristina
2015

Abstract

Contemporary living is increasingly marked by different kinds of associations, collective but not necessarily long-lasting actions, and either little or very determined communalities. This paper will discuss forms of living that reject individualism and shun communities. Indistinct forms, based on “staying side by side, walking in step” which Bauman described as “a desperate need for ‘networking’”, and Sennett as “the force of wandering emotions shifting erratically from one target to another”. Characterised by values such as ecology, frugality, reciprocity and solidarity. We be-lieve that the key issue is to understand whether these forms are capable, as they say they are, of metaphorically rebuilding the city. In other words, whether they can implement a different concept of urbanity and public space by adopting the role played in late capitalist cities by conflict, ration-ality, functionalism, and the market. To tackle the problem we must first understand how they affect three different issues: the first involves changes in the values assigned to living; the second, the new logic of spatial organisation; the third, the revision of the notion of public and its political conse-quences. We will deal with these three issues by referring to case studies investigated in a multidis-ciplinary research carried out from 2011 to 2013 at the Polytechnic Schools of Turin and Milan and the University of Milan.
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