The careness of the city
text and photographs: Daniele Longorbardi,
graduate of architecture at Federico II University of Naples
graphic: Ela Zdebel,
urbanism student at Technische Universiteit Delft
reading time: around 10 min
Our well-being is closely connected with the city, the main environment of our life, a kind of
obelical cord impossible to break.
However, the recent architectural production, due to the profound and little controlled
development of the urban fabric, has led to an inevitable loss of character of these, originating
disorder and confusion.
Even large buildings, intended for public functions, no longer represent specific places of
reference, but find it difficult to have a clear location within the urban fabric, the city thus forms
different levels that inevitably lead to different directions, the path is uncontrolled and confused
by the coexistence of multiple situations dictated by the lifestyle of the inhabitants.
It is therefore the citizens themselves, who must coexist to exist, providing for "mooring" the city,ensuring that a boat is anchored
with moorings, with solid points
of grip, to keep it in the
predetermined position, take
care of it, consider it.
The careness of the city, metaphorically represents the
thread that connects the
surrounding chaos, with
objective interventions aimed at
ensuring the improvement of the
existing, which creates
well-being.
The first citizens to enjoy the new strong ties that can be generated from this care and
consideration of the urban context, are children, unaware users, symbol of the desire to discover
and adapt, as well as the main indicators of a healthy environment.
For adults, children are the projection of their future and for this reason they are constantly
protected and stimulated, even the architecture and structure of our territory must permanently
go in this direction, in the future vision of an active space, therefore, it is necessary create a child-
friendly city, because a child would surely be able to give a unique meaning to the word space, as
a place that combines the physicality of the environment with space-time, living it and adapting to
it as if it were not possible to live differently in another place and therefore making it suitable,
with a strong bond, to him.
