Sulla topologia della città

Similar to many other Italian cities, Naples has its specificity in the construction strictly related to its geography and the form of the place where it was settled and also in its stratification over the long period of its history. Starting from its Greek foundation, through the enlargement to the sea in the Medieval and Aragonese age, the construction of the Spanish Quarter and of the “villages” outside the city wall during the Seventeenth century and the opening to the territory during the Enlightenment, Naples has always structured itself in a sort of intrinsic dialogue between form of the ground and form of the plan, configuring, in a synchronic reading of the present time in space, a conformation of the city in different parts, formally defined. As Aldo Rossi stated: «We can study the city from many different points of view: but it emerges in an autonomous way when we consider it as final data, as construction, as architecture». In Naples, from this point of view, it is still possible to work inside the “parts”, on one hand, reaffirming or in any case interpreting them and, on the other hand, in the marginal areas where the different parts are in conflict, sometimes overlapping untidily, clarifying the system of this mutual relationship.