Joelho #08 Ideas and Practices for the European City

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This issue of Joelho aims to bring together contributions to discuss the European City as a project and as the vital locus of historical processes that shape our collective memory and shared cultural heritage. The European City, as Leonardo Benevolo said in 1993, defines "the stable backdrop upon which meaning is given to the flow of various experiences that characterize each generation." For more than five centuries, the discipline of architecture has been instrumental in defining this backdrop. The articles published in the following pages illustrate some key moments of this process.