The application of social and community participation was one of the causes, but especially for centuries was the product of urban civilization, at least until the advent of the modern metropolis, which has transformed the relationship between the men by making them more transient and less stable.
Today this question of community seems to have finally run out. But it is only the fault of the poor quality of public spaces of the contemporary city, unable to take on the character of places? Surely there are stronger reasons and more complex to understand.
In particular it is worth dwelling on the speed of growth and transformation of the contemporary city-territories and especially the speed with which they move, mix, transform its people (if people can still talk).
an example of the scope of the ongoing trials could be mentioned the old town, many referred to as legacy of urbanity and human scale of social life, yet today almost everywhere subject to gentrification that in essence, is nothing more than the replacement of the inhabitants, with their web of relations that time has painstakingly concocted, with users or other social categories (temporary residents, workers, tourists, students) to the same areas that express a completely different question, not so much participation as a district and then as a community, but rather performance.
Our urbanity change, in other words, even if it does not change the physical image of the city. At the same time the social classes that are expelled from the city centers are scattered in an area less and less defined, less recognizable, but also larger and more mutable, and disperse break the bonds that held them together in the concept of community.
Cacciari argues that the difficulty in building community in post-metropolis is given by 'man's inability to address the trend to the' atopy 'city-territory, but perhaps more simply, the cause is nell'inconciliabilità between times of human relationships and the short time of processing and the re-signification of the territory.
next question is whether this really is waning demand for community, or if you are not quite turning into something else. If we extend our eyes from each city to global city with its pervasive network of physical mobility, monetary and information, we realize that there is a network of global relations it deepens and enriches the time and clamoring for his physical spaces in the city.
It is clear then that application needs to rethink the spaces of contemporary cities on the basis of insecurity not only the city itself, but the relationships that they insist on it. Perhaps, to borrow a provocation Park, that city dwellers are living as in some large hotels, meeting without knowing, you might groped interpretation of the city, not as home but as community property, a new community lighter elusive and, perhaps, but comprehensive and flexible.
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