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Historical evolution and processes
of cultural and economic globalization have brought out relevant and
frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate
change and an increase in natural disasters, but also an enormous widening of
economic and social inequality. Today, humanity as a whole is facing epochal
challenges that require a radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new
design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a
dynamic equilibrium that is continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and defines new urban environments
that abandon a rigid design scheme in favor of growing evolutionary mechanisms
capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition, so as to guarantee a
resilient and peaceful future.