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The Decline of the Urban Narrative
In this article there is an attempt to focus in on the decline and disappearance of the concept of narrative in the decline of the modern period and above all in the post-modern period, wondering about the unknown future. It has to do with the story of of the progressive loss of the characteristics and of the contents of the narrative up to the present day celebration of its negation. In the long “century” (the 1900s), the contradiction between the course of reality and the good intentions of saving the constitutive principle of the city expressed in the “western canon” has been irreversibly amplified. In the contemporary city, there no longer exists the conditions which permit the ascertaining of urban identity, just as the gradual disappearance of every residual trace of configuration and therefore of evidence of narration certifies the end of the urban narrative.
The Decline of the Urban Narrative
In this article there is an attempt to focus in on the decline and disappearance of the concept of narrative in the decline of the modern period and above all in the post-modern period, wondering about the unknown future. It has to do with the story of of the progressive loss of the characteristics and of the contents of the narrative up to the present day celebration of its negation. In the long “century” (the 1900s), the contradiction between the course of reality and the good intentions of saving the constitutive principle of the city expressed in the “western canon” has been irreversibly amplified. In the contemporary city, there no longer exists the conditions which permit the ascertaining of urban identity, just as the gradual disappearance of every residual trace of configuration and therefore of evidence of narration certifies the end of the urban narrative.
The Decline of the Urban Narrative
Pierluigi Giordani (author)
2013
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