The future of the city: The fragment and the sense of place

• Calogero Montalbano ^[1]
  1. [1] Politecnico di Bari

     Politecnico di Bari

     Bari, Italia

     
• Localización: Tradition and Innovation / Mário Say Ming Kong (aut.), Aleksander Józef Olszewski (aut.), Martin Simonson (aut.), Andreia Garcia (aut.), Jorge Nunes (aut.), José Lopes Morgado (aut.), Santi Centineo (aut.), Andrea Iezzi (aut.), Irina Seits (aut.), Taisia S. Paniotova (aut.), Maxim Romanenko (aut.), Valdomiro Ceolin (aut.), Francisco Oliveira (aut.), Margarida Louro (aut.), Carla Chiarantoni (aut.), António Leite (aut.), Denise Gaudiot (aut.), João Pernão (aut.), Laura Martins (aut.), Andre Santos (aut.), Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque (aut.), Jéssica Costa (aut.), Ljiljana Čavić (aut.), Leonardo Barros (aut.), Maria Luisa Trindade Bestetti (aut.), Mariana Alves da Silva do Nascimento (aut.), Maria Madalena Aguiar da Cunha Matos (aut.), Maria da Luz Sampaio (aut.), Clara Vale (aut.), João B. Menezes de Sequeira (aut.), Artur Renato Ortega (aut.), Silvana Weihermann (aut.), Eduardo Francisco Durao Antunes (aut.), Pedro Miguel Gomes Januario (aut.), Paulo Jorge Garcia Pereira (aut.), Verner Monteiro (aut.), Maísa Veloso (aut.), Bárbara Silva (aut.), Mário Bruno Cruz (aut.), Clara Germana Gonçalves (aut.), Maria João Moreira Soares (aut.), Joao Miguel Couto Duarte (aut.), Raffaella Maddaluno (aut.), João Silva Jordão (aut.), María da Soledade Gómez Paiva de Sousa (aut.), Miguel Baptista Bastos (aut.), Alex Nogueira Rezende (aut.), José Vitor Correia (aut.), Ana Vasconcelos (aut.), José Cabral Dias (aut.), Eneida Kuchpil (aut.), Kate O’Connor (aut.), Sandra da Mouta Brito (aut.), Madalena Pinto Da Silva (aut.), Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho (aut.), Marta Labastida (aut.), Maria Eunice da Costa Salavessa (aut.), José Tadeu Marques Aranha (aut.), Viviana Sofia Hipólito Frutuoso (aut.), Amilcar de Gil Pires (aut.), Wenyu Qi (aut.), João Guerreirinho (aut.), Hirbod Norouzianpour (aut.), David Weiss (aut.), Calogero Montalbano (aut.), José Silveira Dias (aut.), Fernando Moreira da Silva (aut.), Ana Moreira da Silva (aut.), Caio Marcelo Miolo de Oliveira (aut.), Rita Almendra (aut.), Ana Rita Lourenço (aut.), Tiago Perez Leitão Maciel (aut.), António Gorgel Pinto (aut.), Alberto Cruz Reaes Pinto (aut.), Gizela Horvath (aut.), Maria João Castro (aut.), António Canau (aut.), Szymon Wróbel (aut.), Isabel Gomes de Almeida (aut.), Guilherme Borges Pires (aut.), Kim Groop (aut.), María do Rosário Pimentel (aut.), Rodolfo Nogueira da Cruz (aut.), Maria Leonor García da Cruz (aut.), Olinda Kleiman (aut.), Ana Paula Avelar (aut.), Fernando Jorge Oliveira Ribeiro (aut.), Mário Carlos Fernandes Avelar (aut.), Angélica Varandas (aut.), Maria de la Salette da Costa Loureiro (aut.), Margarida Rendeiro (aut.), Raúl Montero Gilete (aut.), Eduardo M. Raposo (aut.), Gonçalo Falcão (aut.), Paulo Simões (aut.), Ana Cristina dos Santos Guerreiro (aut.), Maria da Graça dos Santos Antunes Moreira (aut.), Ana Pereira Neto (aut.), Ana Isabel Runa (aut.), Iuliana Borbely (aut.), Ermanno Aparo (aut.), Liliana Soares (aut.), Paula Maria Vieira Reaes Pinto (aut.), 2021, ISBN 9780429297786
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  • After having directly undergone the profound transformations of the last half-century, cities that have arrived at modernity appear today highly fragmented. This fragmentation, directly related to the low quality of life of these urban realities, is intimately linked to a hypertrophic growth of cities compared to the actual “carrying capacity” of the territories they belong to and an excessive simplification of their spatial structure.Contemporary cities, especially European ones, have increasingly confused the cause of fragmentation with its more general effect: the appearance of “urban voids.” Therefore, during the new millennium, they have begun to implement clogging processes to sewing up and regenerating parts of cities and containing further forms of uncontrolled expansion of their limits. On the other hand, this phenomenon has not solved the problem of urban and, therefore, social fragmentation, especially in the more peripheral areas of cities, but only that of the continuity of the “forma urbis.”The present essay wishes to highlight how the city of the future must face the problem of fragmentation by operating in the diametrically opposite direction: facilitating the expulsion of fragments. In this sense, it is fundamental to operate through three specific paradigms: 1) separating the fragments rather than merging them; 2) favoring the generation of new centralities in the fragments; 3) connecting the fragments with the complex network of the territory even before the city from which they were expelled.