Una città ideale: città d'irpinia - Proposta di un insediamento antisismico ed ecologico sperimentale

Abstract

Many examples of ideal cities in the Renaissance and post-Renaissance time were only dreams or utopian literature. Some of them were realised (also in times very near to us) by totalitarian seigniory. Today a proposal can be put forward of an ideal city expression of the ideals and practical needs of our modern democracy. An actual ideal city should fulfil to the needs of common welfare, of economic growth, of increase of culture, and to stem to the catastrophic natural phenomena like earthquakes that have produced – starting from the first ancient urban settlements – social involutions and extinctions. This contribution is a first try of a suggestion for a ideal/real city, in which the antiseismic engineering could become a link between the two cultures.