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URBAN SCIENCES THEMES GENERAL
In his well known essay ‘Urbanism as a Way of Life, Louis Wirth wrote: ‘Urbanism as a characteristic mode of life may be approached empirically from three interrelated perspectives:
- as a physical structure comprising a population base, a technology, and an ecological order;
- as a system of social organization involving a characteristic social structure, a series of social institutions, and a typical pattern of social relationships;
- as a set of attitudes and ideas, and a constellation of personalities engaging in typical forms of collective behaviour and subject to characteristic mechanisms of social control’.
Louis Wirth’s categories have evident parallels with the three basic notions of the Urbanization & Urban Culture programme: urbs, civitas and topos. In this section we will explore the meaning of a small and very selected set of urban themes in connection of the three thematic clusters of the programme which, in the end, form the architectural frame for the five research groups and projects.
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