The Decline of the Urban Narrative

• Main Author: Pierluigi Giordani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università di Napoli Federico II 2013-07-01
• Series: TRIA : Territorio della Ricerca su Insediamenti e Ambiente
• Subjects: racconto urbano; declino; città
• Online Access: http://www.tria.unina.it/index.php/tria/article/view/1835

<p>In this article there is an attempt to focus in on the decline and disappearance of the concept of  narrative in the decline of the modern period and above all in the post-modern period,  wondering about the unknown future. It has to do with the story of  of  the progressive loss of the characteristics and of the contents of the narrative up to the present day celebration of its negation. In the long “century” (the 1900s), the contradiction between the course of reality and the good intentions of saving the constitutive principle of the city expressed in the “western canon” has been irreversibly amplified. In the contemporary city, there no longer exists the conditions which permit the ascertaining of urban identity, just as the gradual disappearance of every residual trace of configuration and therefore of evidence of narration  certifies the end of the urban narrative.</p>