From the global city to the city by parts. A. STELLA
Author: Antonello Stella
Affiliation: University of Ferrara
Abstract
The opportunity to reflect on the city of Prishtina is inspired by my participation as a visiting professor at the workshop organized within the course Study and Theory of Architecture 3, at the Polis University of Tirana1, dedicated to its regeneration through some focused urban recovery projects in strategic areas of the city. However, this particular occasion gave me the opportunity to reflect on one of the issues that I believe are currently the most debated among architects and experts dealing with reading and interpreting the contemporary city, or the now decreed impossibility on the part of the same to understand it in its complexity. This "impossibility" brings with it as a direct consequence the end of every possible generalizing theory on the city and on the possible rules to be put in place in order to be able to govern a coherent future development,
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