The seminal work on the urban question by Salvatore Cafiero and his collaborators carried out at Svimez in the late sixties is recalled and reconsidered, stressing its rigor and originality, in the present context of transformation of urban systems. The masterful teaching by Cafiero is still...

This paper makes an attempt to deal with the description, and possibly the explanation, of the profound transformation of the city, and of the changes in urban experience and practices, connected with the shape of contemporary urbanization. I stress the term description, because as it occurs in...