Thinking the city
the city as a school
Aphorism/5
the city as a school
Aphorism/5
Aphorism/5
"I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world".
(Socrates, Greek philosopher)
"We are running the risk of making our cities places where business goes ahead, but where life, in the proper sense of the word, is lost".
(Hubert Horatio Humphrey)
"The city is the master of man".
(Simonide di Ceo, Greek philosopher)
"The city is not merely a mass of bricks. It is that strange thing that is relationships between people".
(Italo Calvino)
Keywords
- Africa
- Algeria
- Architecture
- Argentina
- Arte
- Australia
- Balkans
- Benedict XVI
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chiara Lubich
- City Project
- Colombia
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Dominican Republic
- European Union
- Focolare Movement
- Germany
- IFO
- Igino Giordani
- India
- Interdipendenza
- Italy
- Kenya
- Korea
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- Naples
- Neighbourhood
- New Humanity (ong)
- Nigeria
- Northern Ireland
- Orphanage
- Paraguay
- Philippines
- Poland
- Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
- Rome
- Salesians
- Sardinia
- Somasche nuns
- Spain
- Sport
- Teens for unity
- USA
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
- abandonment
- acceptance
- active citizenship
- adults
- archbishop
- artists
- assistance
- associations
- beauty
- books
- childhood
- children
- children
- citizenship
- community
- concert
- conference
- conflict
- culture
- dialogue
- drug addiction
- ecology
- economy
- economy of communion
- education
- educational emergency
- elderly
- entrepreneurs
- environment
- ethnic groups
- family
- favela
- food
- forgiveness
- fraternity
- health
- health
- honesty
- hope
- house
- immigrants
- integration
- interreligious dialogue
- jail
- job
- justice
- juvenile uneasiness
- knowledge of the city
- legality
- listening
- mafia
- malnutrition
- massmedia
- mayors
- minors
- music
- parents
- parish
- participation
- peace
- politics
- poorness
- prayer
- projects
- reciprocity
- reconciliation
- reconstruction
- rights
- school
- sharing
- sisters
- slogan
- social redemption
- society
- street
- teens
- the golden rule
- trust
- twinship
- village
- war
- waste
- young people
- “let’s colour the city” project
Highlights
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The tender notes of Plash's children The Philippines: a guitar teacher comes upon a group of children...
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Ascoli Piceno: the city is renewed In a town in the Marche region of Italy, the whole community...
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A “decayed” school is born again “playing” A Brazilian school with a particularly difficult class. The idea of...
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