" L'impossibilità di essere normale " Territorio italiano: differenze e antidoti all'omologazione

Il testo analizza le principali caratteristiche del territorio italiano a partire dalla sua naturale capacità di produrre antidoti all'omologazione. Producing differences, in culture and in the territory, has always been an Italian prerogative rooted in a complex history and a variegated landscape. But even the production of universal ideas about urban form has found more fertile ground in Italy than almost anywhere in the world. This twin set of apparently contrasting conditions at different scales has led to the rise of an Italian culture of the city, capable of generating models that have been reproduced everywhere in inönite variations. It could be said that Italian urban culture, starting with the Roman city, produced the örst forms of standardisation, yet at the same time cultivated the antibodies needed to prevent a generalised formal uniformity of cities. There is no doubt that, while in the past this attitude towards difference was instrumental towards inventing a landscape and producing a living archive of rich urban solutions, in more recent times development has taken more perverse forms. But even within a scenario of incomplete fragments, which has rarely expressed quality, it has continued to generate unexpected variations.