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Title Contradictions. The time of cities as deserts
ID_Doc 29375
Authors Cortesi, I
Title Contradictions. The time of cities as deserts
Year 2021
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Abstract In this time spent searching for solutions that will allow us to once again attain a stable condition for our economies, for the geopolitical equilibrium of the world population, we have been forced to acquire greater awareness of our present. We have gained awareness on the extractive imperialist dimension, towards the planet's resources combined with population growth, has potentially exhausted the opportunities for social mobility and for effective progress for individuals. This has deeply exploited the natural resources, our source of life. This brings us to an undisputed condition of social, cultural and economic impoverishment. The current push towards a circular economy that must rapidly supplant that of consumption in relation to the virtuous, but not without shadows, practices of the Green New Deal offers us, in the midst of the uncertain evolution of COVID 19, the opportunity to bring the relationship of care. Individuals must establish a care attitude with the environment, with the resources of nature and with the landscape. A new biocentric alliance arises that allows us, thanks to our adaptability, to 'resist in order to relive'.
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