Il progetto dei contesti della città moderna: un approccio critico alla morfologia urbana dei tessuti del novecento = The project in the modern city contexts: a critical approach to urban morphology of twentieth century fabrics

Starting from the studies on urban morphology, this text aims to capture the answers to the crisis of the “Modern” in the vast and complex debate that has developed particularly on the periph- ery of the second postwar period. In the Italian culture of the first half of the twentieth century, indeed, the analysis of historical urban models had not yet produced a “science” of urban struc- ture but focused mainly on the phenomenolog- ical reading of form. With the overcoming of this vision, research on the analysis-project re- lationship has exercised a fundamental influence on contemporary design and urban morphology has represented, and still represents, a funda- mental critical tool with respect to the “linear” approach to development. A tool that helps to overcome the crisis of the relationship between man and the environment and to rebuild the necessary level of complexity, of inter-scalar and intersectoral relationships, according to a critique of the “consumption of the image”. The reference to studies and projects on the founding cities in Sardinia completes this “operating” vi- sion of the morphological method, together with a conscious interpretation of the form of the settlement as a matrix of identity and cultural manifesto of an era.