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The 'machine for living', so dear to the Modern Movement, has become over the years less and less as a machine and more and more as a living organism. It demands breathing space: dwellings that have gone from being "living cells" to houses, with an outside and neighbours; neighbourhoods that are increasingly configured as communities of practice.
The global health emergency that has affected us since the beginning of the 2020s strongly suggests a rethink of the concept of the city: What will be the guiding principles of urban planning in the future? Will fear dictated by what we have experienced or the hope of a better future? a better future? And, with the rise of smart working, a repositioning of preferences for preferences for places to live/work, in time and space: city lights (which change) or green living (and new forms of urban urban)? After the dynamics of concentration that have driven urban urban development in recent years, the wind may be blowing towards a different towards a different balance of the city-countryside pair (insofar as it still holds
balance (however much it still holds) between city and countryside.