Dalle pietre al paesaggio. la città storica per John Ruskin
The essay wants to analyse the John Ruskin vision of conservation at the urban scale. The English critic lived personally the transition of the town from being a historic settlement, with evident features of long-persisting continuity, to become a composite and diachronic ensemble, defined by a mixture of ancient building and urban expansions, demolitions and new edifices, infrastructures and factories.