Bergamo: una città e il suo “nuovo centro”

The contribution highlights the distinctive features of the historical urban structure of the city of Bergamo: a double center with the historic city founded on the hill and descending with the boroughs toward the plain; the modern city on the plain, configuring a 'double center'; the matrix of water, so relevant in defining the form and characters of urban (and contextual) development; the progressive rearrangement of the road network, so strongly conditioned by the hill; the decisive elements of the urban transformation of the city, starting with the defined Piacentinian center; and the more recent redevelopment trajectories.