Urbanity in Transition. Chiaroscuros in the Project of the Contemporary City

Abstract

After the Pandemic, some ideas related to the demand for a new or different urbanism, which could be associated with the “proximity revolution”. That has also to do with an approach effort to urban metabolism from the territorial perspective that incorporates the concept of bio-region , a concept projected at the service of a coherent and collaborative local project, rescuing the deep inter-relationship between the urban and its rural and natural environments. Spatial planning is working in an uneven world; in a continuous process of wondering… What do we know how to do? What we don't know how to do? What we would like to avoid?