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• There are five points we could take to define them as urban projects:

1. territorial effects outside their area of intervention.
2. complex and interdependent character of the contents; superseding of monofunctionality (park, road, typology, etc.); mixture of uses, users, temporal rates, and visual orientations.
3. intermediate scale, to be completed within a limited time scale of a few years.
4. voluntarily assumed commitment to adopt an urban architecture, independently of the architecture of the buildings.
5. a significant public component in investments and in collective uses of the program.

• How is the road to be defined?

Not in terms of a row of houses. And not even by forming an urban fabric and resorting to massive construction. Without resorting to massive construction, he sees the road as a mental form of the city, marked by a number of visual and utilitarian points of reference. Several works of architecture skilfully arranged along the road will render its character and image visible.

• …This is a question of a debate over the fabric of the city. Regularity and typology are the pivots on which the project turns, linked together in a monolithic fashion. The articulation between the morphological subsystems offers the element of greatest interest: how the different fragments of the grid interfere with each other, and how the urban general directrices are turned into elements of rupture of the order.

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