Ricerc@Sapienza

This paper aims to analyse some late medieval Genoese ship logs and "stipendiariorum monstrae" preserved in the State Archives of Genoa focusing on the geographical origin of the personnel on board. The author highlights the peculiar composition of the crews and their diachronic transformative dynamics, reconsidering their social role in the context of Genoese seafaring life, comparing it with the contemporary Venetian and Catalan-Aragonese context.

The information revolution is radically transforming the very foundation of the fossil city'. A 'virtual' macro-urbanism will intersect with an 'actual' micro-urbanism, physical and concrete, determining the form of the new urban environment. Within the binomial of macro- and micro- urbanism, urban morphology identifies an interesting socio-building scale that can serve as the basic strategy for sustainable city planning in the twenty-first century.