Ambiti identitari di quartiere per la città del futuro

Abstract

How should we conceive a future city that is capable of avoiding the mistakes of the present? In order to redraw our urban spaces we have been looking for neighbourhood identity areas in Palermo, so that they can link the past to the future, development to conservation. The neighbourhood becomes the common ground between the private sphere (the house) and the public sphere (the city), and allows the citizens to embrace the active sphere of politics. This paper aims at identifying a way to overcome the administrative scheme which has so far been used: neighbourhoods urge citizens from the 21th century to rediscover society, conceived as the connecting ground between each other.