Alfonso Femia e Paul Ardenn, La città buona. Per una architettura responsabile

Many of the transformations by which the pandemic crisis has deeply impacted on our habits concern our relationship with the city, its infrastructures, the places and spaces of collective life, and our own homes. During the first months of the lockdown, the changes were often as radical as unexpected and in some cases irreversible. The emptiness of schools and workplaces has resulted in the overlapping of the different, sometimes incompatible, activities of family members in smaller and often inappropriate domestic spaces. In many fields, the need to manage some work activities remotely has paved the way for new organisational models and, therefore, for workspace. The solutions used to implement them will remain valid, in some cases, even after the crisis. Notwithstanding the gradual (partial) return to normality, the echoes of this experience, especially in those places where such changes were most dramatically visible, have become, as after every crisis, a valuable input for rethinking and reprogramming what did not work or proved to be insufficiently resilient or totally inadequate at a structural and infrastructural level. Criteria, strategies and models enabling a new way of designing, building and managing urban environments have been the subject of an ongoing debate and several publications since the early months of the crisis. “La città buona. Per una architettura responsabile”, published in February 2021 by Marsilio, offers a number of ideas and insights concerning some of the issues behind this debate.

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