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Identity and Value of Public Space: Multifaceted and Multicultural Points of View

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Values, Cities and Migrations

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The topic of public space, its definition and description, and its transformation is certainly extremely actual and relevant. If the identity approach helps to understand the essence of a place, today it is necessary to be aware that identity is something that can change over time. It is enough to have a look at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, to understand that the Agenda focuses on these issues. The considerations presented in this paper, starting from a reflection on public space, reason on the themes of identity and value. The argument is based on the new forms of public space and how they are the result of many variables that need to be observed from multifaceted and multicultural points of view. If the inhabitant, by living in a place, contributes to defining its identity by imposing his way of living that place, if the inhabitants change, the identity changes. These changes should not be considered a problem just because they are produced by “others”. The so-called new inhabitants, and by new inhabitants our thoughts should not only be directed to migrants, can be bearers of other values that can enrich the place. The presence of the other; the relationship with the other; the space of the other are new values that, as part of the concept of inclusiveness, will enrich the changing city giving it that character of contemporaneity and responding to the current complexity that characterizes this organism.

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Notes

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    Here is the original text: “L’identità non è solo un attributo della città, ma parametro di valutazione, elemento di riferimento (e occasione) per più generali analisi, chiave di lettura per tutta una serie di processi di trasformazione della realtà urbana: campo di indagine trasversale quindi, che molti altri implica e interseca, da quelli più generali a quelli di carattere più strettamente operativo”.

  2. 2.

    Here is the original text: “Identità e parola ricca di significati e tuttavia sfuggevole, contraddittoria ed ambigua nell’alludere al tempo stesso alla uguaglianza e alla singolarità”.

  3. 3.

    Here is the original text: “Je ne sais, disait le peintre, comment ‘aboutir’ au portrait de Baudelaire: tous les jours change de figure”.

  4. 4.

    Here is the original text: “Una società plurale implica necessariamente il superamento della visione emergenziale ed assistenziale del principio stesso di accoglienza, a dispetto del perdurare di alcuni stereotipi, slogan massmediatici e posizioni politiche”.

  5. 5.

    Here is the original text: “un Quadro molto articolato di studi che hanno cercato di descrivere I processi di territorializzazione della città multietnica, così come le modalità di intervento in alcuni specifici settori di policy”.

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    The 2030 Agenda is the result of forty years of multidisciplinary and multicultural dialogue and debate, defined to address environmental, social and economic challenges facing the global community. It was adopted as a result of intensive negotiations among member states who are primarily responsible for its execution. The Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. It is organized in 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. The Goals and targets will stimulate action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.

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    Filippo Schilleci

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  2. DIST, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Giulio Mondini

  3. DASTU, Politecnico of Milano, Milano, Italy

    Alessandra Oppio

  4. DIA, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Paolo Rosato

  5. DARCH, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Simona Barbaro

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Schilleci, F. (2023). Identity and Value of Public Space: Multifaceted and Multicultural Points of View. In: Napoli, G., Mondini, G., Oppio, A., Rosato, P., Barbaro, S. (eds) Values, Cities and Migrations. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16926-7_7

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