{"id":7016,"date":"2026-10-05T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:16:38","slug":"che-cosa-sono-le-citta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/che-cosa-sono-le-citta\/","title":{"rendered":"What are cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>Sunday, September 6th<\/strong> at<strong> 3:00 PM,<\/strong> the <strong>Andar\u00f2 Festival<\/strong> at Montorio Castle in Verona will host a discussion featuring <strong>Diego Caloi<\/strong> (AGA), <strong>Giacomo Mormino<\/strong> (UniVr), and <strong>Giulio Saturni<\/strong> (COCAI), who will attempt to answer the question: <em>&#8220;What are cities?&#8221;<\/em> In the 1967 film &#8216;Othello&#8217; directed by Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli and Tot\u00f2\u2014playing Othello and Iago\u2014portray two marionettes who, after being tossed off-stage onto a rubbish heap, look up at the sky for the first time and ask: &#8220;What are those?&#8221; &#8220;They\u2019re clouds.&#8221; &#8220;How beautiful! What are they for?&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; We ought to start from this very sense of wonder\u2014and from this same unconventional vantage point\u2014to ask ourselves the same question about cities: what are they? We know what they are for, or at least we think we do. They exist for living, working, producing, trading, commuting, and meeting others. We measure, plan, and administer them. Today, we calculate everything related to cities: square meters, rental yields, distances. We know their purpose so well that we have almost stopped asking ourselves what they truly are. We should try to strip the city of its utility, of the functions we have assigned to it and the ways in which we believe we know it; we must return to thinking about cities as if we were seeing them\u2014finally\u2014for the very first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, September 6th at 3:00 PM, the Andar\u00f2 Festival at Montorio Castle in Verona will host a discussion featuring Diego Caloi (AGA), Giacomo Mormino (UniVr), and Giulio Saturni (COCAI), who will attempt to answer the question: &#8220;What are cities?&#8221; In the 1967 film &#8216;Othello&#8217; directed by Pasolini, Ninetto Davoli and Tot\u00f2\u2014playing Othello and Iago\u2014portray&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/arendt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}