Concinnita. Il progetto di città contemporaneo

Concinnity. The contemporary project of the city We cannot linger any longer, the contemporaneity is looming. The contemporary is the other way of announcing the future in the pre- sent. As Gabriele Pasqui (Pasqui, 2008) states, the time of urbanism is the future perfect. What do urban planners do today? They work to re-in- habit the world, this could be the answer. Howe- ver, what does this mean? In Espèces d’espaces Georges Perec (1989) introduces a method of approaching things, considering the gaze, the ability to look and classify them. If you look at a place and get nothing, you do not know how to look. Perec’s statement thus reveals how diffi- cult it is to know and look deeply into the world around us. Classifying, listing and naming things is a good way to understand the world. To this end, the method to adopt is excavation, obser- vation and classification. The excavation disclo- ses, removes the veil that conceals an ideal city in the existing one. A discovery that depends on planners (Ferraro, 1998): this is the assumption proposed by Patrick Geddes, and it should be solely interpreted as a stimulus to bring into play the imagination when looking at the extant, aiming for new, unexpected things to happen. How can we be amazed by the existent? The place is a common word.