Postmodern urban studies, I presume? on Giorgio Piccinato's, Un mondo di città, Comunità, Torino, 2002

This short note does not try to summarise a book, which is not devoted to the impossible task of deconstructing the city in the five continents. Even more, it does not review a book, which does not fit the academic moods, and charges the scientific culture with a substantial inadequacy in dealing with the present state of the city. Seemingly, this book is mainly a description, and denies a strong interpretative structure: it may even appear vague at a superficial glance, and deprived of sound conclusions, a criticism subtly anticipated by the author in the preface. On Giorgio Piccinato's, Un mondo di città, Comunità, Torino, 2002