No. 9 (2012): City and Mega events, yesterday today tomorrow

Every city arises from an event, an individual decision supported by a collective engagement, disciplined by rules defining technical and legal norms for implementing and managing, breeding customs, traditions, rituals and shared behaviours, as roots of culture and civilization. The origin of the foundation city, both in the ancient time and in the medieval and modern ages, represents the first major event for the city which resumes, in its physical and management setting-up, the matrix characteristics of urban planning complexity, putting into a dialectic comparison not only “where” (place and space), “when” (age and time) and “how” (form and behaviour), but also “why” and “for whom”, turning out as the dominant subjects of the residential making-process since the beginning of civilisations.