CITY, NATURE AND DESIGN

City and Nature
How could other words express in a more efficient, and at the same time poetical and spiritual way, the concept of city? An ordered and still multiple ensemble. Ordered since the external spaces and the constructions which border them present a clear and undoubted order dictated by some criteria. These criteria result readable or not according to the fact that either the urban core had been settled originating from a foundation nucleus or had been born on a series of small units later aggregated, as it occurred in a lot of urban medieval or pre-medieval centres. But mainly, and here it is interesting to underline its weight, it is multiple for it includes, comprehends, gathers and makes interactive a great amount of components, houses, gardens, spaces, marble… And we can also add streets, fountains, squares, trees, birds, etc., and all these components raise in the barbarian soldier, who has never seen a complex settlement like a city, a few strong and contrasting feelings, such emotions that will then lead him indeed to embrace the Roman citizenship, leaving back his origin’s people. Therefore it can doubtlessly be affirmed that not only a physical – even if multiple – structure exists in the urban nucleus, but also an invisible, metaphorical, spiritual and emotional structure can be observed, represented by citizens’ presence, as well as by the natural component which lingers on the open spaces, mainly on the gardens.