Morfologia urbana. In/sondabilità della sua significazione. Wege, nicht Werke

The epistemological question on the notion of urban morphology leads first of all to reflect on the meaning attributed by the various schools of thought, especially Italian, interested in treating the subject with a “scientific” meaning aimed at recognizing the becoming of the form-structure of city. At the same time, it raises the anti-dogmatic question of the recognition of a possible “common sense” capable of transversally permeating the different methods that operate in this field. Starting from this premise – reasoning on the evidence of critical positions attested on different research trajectories, which are mostly considered as “paths” towards the achievement of knowledge goals intended as starting postulates of possible scenarios with which to try to recompose the fragments of a complexity increasingly centered on the multiform dynamics of society –, the dissertation tries to recall some main causes of today’s urban phenomena by placing the relationship between socio-anthropological manifestations and the material outcome of the critical activity of the operating subject in a dialectical relationship. In particular, with reference to the heterotopic phenomenology suggested by Foucault present in forms as diverse as they are multiform in different urban realities, he comes to grasp the numerous contradictions of contemporary urban space. The investigation of some method hypotheses that are offered in this complex background of questions opens up to a series of questions – and some proposals – that the Italian schools of urban morphology suggest to stem the complex phenomena encountered, offering a cross-section of research without a doubt fertile, albeit still partial, in order to dominate the complex phenomenology in progress.