No. 10 (2007): Generators of new urbanity: Shopping places
The practice of Urban Planning has tried, on each of the moments in which it has been practiced as such, adapting the methodological contents to the urban reality that is object of Organization and Control. Furthermore, this reality is what has marked the methodological steps to pursue by a field with vocation of “creating city”, of constructing “citizenship”.
Over the last decades of the last century, and on the years following the European “strives”, including the national ones, Urban Planning, being faithful to the principles that generated it as a “discipline of projecting”, faces the spatial planning of the city and the land, more preoccupied, however, about the former rather than the latter, conditioned, over all, by providing the development of specific processes of “land production”. It’s understood that its intention is to combine “land policies” with a “civic spatial planning” that generates a city for its citizens. This is, at least, the theory, the good intentions at the source.
Given the importance of this subject field, we have wanted to dedicate a number of this CIUDADES magazine to deal with these matters in the most universal way possible; that is to say, combining works that tackle European casuistries, This publication has been made, as is the norm for us, collaborating with international university institutions. On this occasion, we must recognize the Laboratory URB&COM of the Polytechnic of Milan directed by Professor Corinna Morandi, since her generous effort and its valuable contributions have made this project possible.
