Keywords

• In the last two decades
• urban planning has increasingly been detaching from the old ideological anchorage it has been based upon over the 20th century. Modern contrastive forms have been progressively substituted by the evocation of feelings
• images and emotions
• stepping away from history and moving towards life and experience in a shared social perspective. In such a â€
• œ
• peacefulâ€
• 
• framework
• the author wonders how the public has changed: what kind of social sharing and what kind of spatiality does it now require? In contemporary European cities
• the public is no more an homogeneous entity
• but something very articulated and dispersed. A â€
• œ
• minor publicâ€
• 
• emerges
• made of subjects capable and responsible for their choices
• to use languages and techniques of contemporary art and communication
• to join associations
• to cooperate and somehow determine their decisions in the real. Such a public
• a vague and undetermined contemporary middle class
• requires a different spatiality
• often produced as temporary space. In such a perspective
• questions arise about the project of spaces for the public as a plural and dynamic entity