Linking the Village to the Modern World
Linking the Village to the Modern World
70% of the Italian urban fabric is made up of centers with less than 5000 inhabitants, almost all of them with an historic village of medieval origin. In Italy, since the beginning of the twentieth century society started to change and the economy quickly moved from mercantilism, rooted in local knowledge, to the most unrestrained capitalism, open to the globalization of the markets, many villages started to suffer depopulation and phenomena of abandonment. The city is a combination of urbe and civitas, the physical place, the people, the social relations, the economy: without inhabitants the villages can not regenerate and every intervention from the outside is destined to fail.
Guglielmo Minervino, urban planner and researcher, studies the traditional urban planning of Mediterranean villages in search of strategies for their rebirth, while also finding solutions to the problems of modern cities.
Originally shared by Zara Altair
Biourbanism
Linking the old to the new by using villages and small towns to create a network.
https://youtu.be/SuOibudX0do
70% of the Italian urban fabric is made up of centers with less than 5000 inhabitants, almost all of them with an historic village of medieval origin. In Italy, since the beginning of the twentieth century society started to change and the economy quickly moved from mercantilism, rooted in local knowledge, to the most unrestrained capitalism, open to the globalization of the markets, many villages started to suffer depopulation and phenomena of abandonment. The city is a combination of urbe and civitas, the physical place, the people, the social relations, the economy: without inhabitants the villages can not regenerate and every intervention from the outside is destined to fail.
Guglielmo Minervino, urban planner and researcher, studies the traditional urban planning of Mediterranean villages in search of strategies for their rebirth, while also finding solutions to the problems of modern cities.
Originally shared by Zara Altair
Biourbanism
Linking the old to the new by using villages and small towns to create a network.
https://youtu.be/SuOibudX0do
Great share. Social learning and human scale.
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