Endless city margins re-writing.

What is it about?

This article looks at how the Milanese margins are being re-written.

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Why is it important?

It adopts three different perspectives. First, it explores how these have been shaped by economic and social changes; second, how these have been affected by shifts in the spaces or materials that are included in, or excluded from the city and its urban territory; and third, it explores their contemporary connotations by focusing on the notions of porosity and permeability. With the atomisation of the contemporary city, the margin becomes an autonomous entity and often coincides with the fragment, a single object or surface and is characterised by mobility. When taken together, the fragments form a porous spatial network that connect and enliven the individual fragments; a series of margins constantly intersecting and mirroring the heterogeneity of the contemporary spatial condition.

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