Study and design experimentation for framing urban peripheries.

Abstract

Public space is the thread of a methodological discourse about urban structure, interpreted from three complementary systems. We read urban structure as "support" of urban life. The three-systems (roads and mobility, centers and neighborhoods, and public open spaces themselves) allow spatial and functional reading of urban geometry. The ability of the three, independently, but mostly coordinated, offers arguments in order to get that public space was the center of the contemporary and future city project. In the area of teaching on urban and territorial planning space to architects, our experimentation follows these premises. It gives us arguments to validate and keep on them thanks to their ability for making the future "technicians" to understand that they work in a socio-cultural complex entity (articulated and dynamic both in space and time) and to involve themselves in the decisions they will take.