No. 7 (2011): The Languages of the City

The city has many types of language: spoken, written, planned, expressed in its street names, in its numbered and lettered and  epigraphs, in its epitaphs and celebrative plaques, by means of its architectural styles, the typologies of its buildings, their height and the width of its streets, the flow of its traffic and the intensification of its relationships which make it a “living organism” with a body and soul, with a form and essence and with matter and  spirit.  A living organism in the context of an environmental and territorial landscape  which helps define it in a dialectical context, in rivalry with nature, from which it takes away space but adds culture and the linguistic confrontation which arises from this encounter gives us civilization’s journey.