Unfolding urban publicness

The research focused on the identification of alternative public places in the contemporary city, especially regarding their possible connections with the urban mobility system and the urban domains constituted by mobile people that continuously cross the contemporary city with a multiplicity of flows coming from the most different scales. The choice of Milan is, in this sense, extremely interesting because of its own characteristics. Looking at the Italian context, Milan is indeed the city that, for urban dimension, world ranking in the global scale and the related phenomena on social and economical level, more than others [included Rome] can be the right example of a city affect by the problems that have been stated before, and the right city for some attempts of approaching and dealing differently with them.