Urban creation

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“The unfortunate city may contain,

even for a moment, a happy city;

future cities are included in the present cities,

like insects in a pupa’.

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

I always travel with the same book. From city to city, from country to country, from tiny villages to large metropolises. ♪ They're all with me ♪ Invisible Cities Ital Calvin, stories of cities perfectly imperfect, those that could have happened, but they didn't have to. Tales in which you can look like in a mirror, collide your dreams and expectations with the course of events. due to the fact that cities – these Invisible, but besides rather actual – these are the places of our detentions, attachment, meditation, meditation, spaces of our freedom that we share with others.

Everyone's got their city in him. It's imagined and real. The 1 in which we came into the planet is the 1 chosen for the place of residence/work/life (unnecessary delete), the most visited, or possibly the 1 to which we return for strength like the mythical giant Antajos, who always returned to the parent of the earth. City of Life. A multi-level cannon of art that is, or at least should be, the subject of our concern. The city's art is not only walls, parks, architectural pearls and nightmares, glass-concrete blocks, streets, parking lots, trams, pavements, playgrounds, markets, theatres, cinemas, schools. The art of the city is besides the art of managing the city, putting it as a balance between old and new, necessity and need, financial requirements and human requirements. It is balancing on a thin line of support, in which presence, openness, concern, but besides rationality and facts must be reflected. And... it's beautiful real, due to the fact that Aristotle already pointed out that it was perfect. policy – like our cities – should be so tiny as to “see.” Like a community that can be embraced by reason and experience.

It is the art of caring for a city practiced by each side – by the rulers and citizens. In dialogue, but besides in dispute. In listening to each other, in seeing needs and opportunities. In the ability to translate not always easy decisions, creating opportunities for all, not just for the few. It is besides a wise activism, which frequently sees burning issues faster and more clearly than a bit distant from mundaneness and proseness of power. This art is besides the ability to prepare and implement civic budgets that truly reflect the values and needs of a given community. It's convincing more people that we can do more in this place on earth than we might think.

Cities are besides places drawn into the vortex of continuous, inevitable development. Places that, as citizens, we want to change. due to the fact that as residents, we want to be entitled to them. We do not request more fancy hotels, but we request our sentimental places, our gathering and dialog spaces, systems for intergenerational integration and learning from each other. We request to be seen, heard, participating in the system, which is the city. We request authenticity, not plastic "Disneyland", inhabited centers, not open-air museums, where tourists move.

We request our cities – we, the real inhabitants. due to the fact that it's a relation of reciprocity in which people make places, and then they don't have no impact on us. They are about building a bond, about the pervasiveness of things and interests, about the concern of what is common. Places, houses that do not consist of 4 walls and a roof, but of the full relation arrangement that he wants (or does not want) to return to. Cities with crucial places, which are about their authenticity and uniqueness. Cities where we do everything, and sometimes we can afford to do nothing. Many-dimensional works of art that, without residents... will die.

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The cities of Ital Calvin, although imagined, are real due to the fact that each retains its own identity. Thus they become a challenge to travelers, a call, a riddle, an answer, a constant discovery of truth. The city, the people, the values, the self. Turning cities into open-air museums, we rob art. And it's up to urban beings to know what's going to happen.