The Urban Project as a Pivotal Tool of an Unfinished Disciplinary Change

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Giuseppe Cinà
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/104 Language Italian
Pages 20 P. 31-50 File size 124 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2012-104003
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The paper deals with the evolution of the Urban Project, from its beginning to the actual issues. As such it gives a critical review of its meanings and results, focusing on three different phases. A first phase, with various early attempts to modify the modern canon; a second phase, characterised by a "return to the city"; a third phase with both maturation of meaning and increasing drifts. The paper continues showing the emerging of two parallel runs: the Urban Projects direct to further on the city innovation in order to produce "more" city; the Urban Projects exploiting the freeways opened by the traditional planning crisis, progressively unleashing from all but market- oriented conditions.The text then wonders about the difficult perspective of a return of interest in the Urban Project as a paradigm of urban planning.

Keywords: Urban design, project of architecture, disciplinary competition, urban innovation, urban analysis, urban policies.

Giuseppe Cinà, Il progetto urbano come cardine di una mutazione disciplinare rimasta incompiuta in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 104/2012, pp 31-50, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2012-104003