The Domestic City. Expansion of the Role of Domesticity in the Contemporary Urban Context: A New Relationship between Man and City

Essay, Flavio Martella, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

City, Collective identity, Contemporary society, Context, Domesticity, Essay, House, Individuals, New technologies, Outdoor space, Relational space, Society, Urban Paradigms

The dominant relationship between home and city has always been one of the less obvious, but more significant, factors that can promote and permit generalized social change. In the contemporary era, changes in family structure, in the organization of work, in technologies, in communities and in communication are being reflected in a new urban revolution that blends domestic space with that of the city. Thus, the meanings of public and private, exterior and interior, domestic architecture and city architecture are changing. The urban organizational structure that has accompanied us in the last century is undergoing a strong shock to its foundations, moving towards a radical change in its nature that involves new relationships between man and city.