Naturaleartificiale. Il palinsesto urbano. Introduzione

An artificial body engrafted in nature, made of elements both natural and artificial, a form in progress, that strata after strata results in a palimpsest : this is the city we had in mind working on the urban space in a interdisciplinary perspective: We assume here the idea of the city as a dense inscription, thus recollecting the ample debate on the city as text, with some perspective novelties that come from the recent criticism related to the "spatial turn", as devised by Karl Schlogel.