Contesti. Città, territori, progetti

Publisher: Dipartimento di Urbanistica e Pianificazione del Territorio. Univesità di Firenze
Language: Italian

Review presentation

The magazine "Contesti. Città, territori, progetti" was born in 2007 as new edition of the bulletin edited by the urban and territorial planning department of the University of Florence. The new magazine follows the main lines of its predecessor, in its aim to contextualize themes of research typical of our Department in a broader scientific context, at a national and international level.

As the older one, this new series of the magazine is particularly concerned with critical and constructive discussions over institutional themes, such as urban and territorial planning, preservation of city and landscape, and so on, in order to strenghten the public interest in front of a more and more aggressive market system and in front of a planning system unable to manage it in a remarkable way.
Indeed, contemporary cultural reflections over innovation and reformation in urban planning is particularly weak, so that it cannot determine choices able to solve those problems typical of contemporary cities and societies. We face a period of political unwillingness, and weakness of technical - cultural debate. Magazine's aim is therefore to enrich the interchange between various cultural approaches and the political - administrative sphere, so as to improve more relevant and effective methods of planning for the government of contemporary changes.

The magazine is to be considered as a monograph, since every number is focused on one theme derived from the researching activity of our Department. These researches may be roughly divided into three main spheres, characterized by very diverse points of view and methodologies:
- planning and projects for the city and territory
- landscape planning
- urban politics and participation, with a section about cities and countries of the least developed countries ("the South").

The magazine comes out twice a year. Each issue is divided into five sections: essays, researches, reviews and bibliographical surveys, tuscan observatory. The first five numbers of the magazines are dedicated to the following themes (titles of the latter three, still to be edited, are to be considered as not definitive):
1 - Contested places: the reconquest of public space (edited March 2007);
2 - Planning and good administration of the city (edited November 2007, with a supplement to be edited probably April 2008, dedicated to the new Florence's urban plan);
3 - Paradigms of rural landscape (May - June 2008);
4 - Models of territorial government (October - November 2008);
5 - Territories and cities in the South of the world (May - June 2009).

Indice

Contesti. Città, territori, progetti n. 1/2007
Luoghi contesi: la riconquista dello spazio pubblico, a cura di Daniela Poli

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Contesti. Città, territori, progetti n. 2/2007
Piano e buongoverno della città, a cura di Marco Massa