The Role of Free Space within the Morphological and Social Fabric of the City

Cristiano Luchetti, Essay, expanding design practices, High Density, Islam El Mashtooly, Mouaz Abouzaid, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architect’s role, Biennale, Cities, Cultural agitator, Curatorial, Egypt, Essay, Exhibition, Global Awareness, Globalization, Metropolis, Planetary urbanizations, Society, Sustainable Development, Territory, Urban Paradigms, Urbanization, Venice

Cities were founded because societies are better than the individuals that make them. A society needs places to operate, manifest, recognize, and reproduce. The city is the place of society, opportunity, exchange and, therefore, of knowledge. In these few lines, one could explain the reasons of the secular phenomenon of the massive urbanization that seems to have no limits or exhausts its scope. Through its expansion, over time, the city from limited conurbation has become a region, then a whole territory. Since long time, the historical clear separation between Urbs and Orbs, between the city and “the everything else”, has been outmoded.