"Designing a future city"

In my paper I will examine some fundamental issues concerning the possibility of building cities in Italy. I will refer to the ability of Italian cities to stay afloat in Europe due to variables such as development plans, research, technology transfer (innovation in enterprises, universities, hospitals), business and family services, environmental quality, link with the global economy. But I will also refer to the ability to protect the physical landscape from the attacks of urbanization as much as the moral landscape from the attack of organized crime under so many flags. The creation of identity of the city remains a problem, as the vocation to territorial, cultural or economic planning. There is no relationship between sprawl, which only create a provisional form of sociability, and historical centers. Their own governance remains a problem (Bonomi), while no one knows how to integrate these new forms of urbanity with the old countries and cities. Lacks a particular quality of the places, people and government: political qualities before they are geographical or anthropological. Lacks ecological footprint because it lacks a fundamental attention and perception of the problems and rights of citizenship which it is part of. Despite the huge intellectual capital (skills, monuments, philosophies of doing and thinking, masterpieces) accumulated in distant epochs, there is no desire to protect and make it available to all citizens. To draw its own future, the city must be able to get out of idiotism characterizing closed communities and open to the idea of public space to serve all the social realities that inhabit it.