Transizioni, trasformazioni, teorizzazioni nell’urbanistica d’oggi. Intervista a Michele Talia a cura di Giusi Ciotoli

Michele Talia is a full professor at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Camerino. Since 2019, he has been the president of INU, the National Institute of Urban Planning. He is a scholar who pays attention to the social, environmental and economic repercussions fostered by the major metropolitan transformations occurring in recent decades, and he has been committed – through INU – to bringing urban planning and urban studies back to the centre of the political and cultural debate. The territory, to be considered as a system that needs to be understood in order to implement regeneration and planning policies, is thus one of the founding themes of his theoretical research, which he develops in his dual role as lecturer and intellectual. The interview seeks to review crucial topics of our current times, linking these issues to the scientific fields that Michele Talia has always investigated: the ecological transition seen as the transition to a new energy model whose integrated cost-benefit approach has yet to be understood; the criticalities experienced over the past two years and the project of reconfiguring the post-Covid city; the fragilities of our territory, in reference to infrastructural deficiencies and the social problems that these aspects impose.