Abstract

The urban space, in Europe, is, today, an intermediate environment which absorbs the unpredictable variations of the world of the life and declines them according to a code registered in the present materialism of the urban condition. This local device of innovation can he today tracked down through the auto-organization of certain systems of alteration of the territory. Instead of taking the shape of duly stamped Projects or a public Politics, this characteristic device of the European urban condition tends to show itself in the « common » reality of the processes of evolution