The City that Talks About Itself. Looking Beyond the Threshold into the Inner Urban Margins

The contribute to the book is about the importance of urban inner margins – like facades – as displays of internal activities and testimonies of urban change. The book presents some reflections on the role of design discipline in a proactive context of reconstruction and re-occupation of urban spaces guided by residents, becoming increasingly frequent. Specific research methodologies and intervention strategies in close relation with the resident population, is the subject of the research done at the Design department in the Politecnico di Milano which aims at generating future scenarios of hybridization of functions, places, activities.