On building site in early modern Ferrara. Urban transformation of the ducal city in the second half of XVIth century through two archival sources about human behaviour, economical aspects and construction process in architectural production (original) (raw)

Nowadays, metropolitan urban contexts are called to adapt “to a new urban issue” (Secchi, 2011), a complexity of external factors – growth of population, climate, environmental, economic and social changes that determine a state of vulnerability and fragility of their living conditions. In this framework it is necessary to investigate transformation strategies towards more sustainable cities, which can find in its widespread and multi-scalar open space a device for resilient and regenerative solutions. The research context is the city of Turin, where the recognition of the regenerative value of urban "wastes" (Lynch, 1990), result of post-industrial planning and dismission processes, is today crucial to reassemble the fragmented morphologic structure towards an adaptive change. Understanding how this legacy could be re-interpreted, as a heritage of the future, is one of the challenges that this research aims to investigate, trying to delineate a methodological framework fo...