Introduzione [Architettura e politica: un incrocio di sguardi]

How can interesting points of departure for such a vast, much-discussed and sometimes hackneyed subject like the relationship between architecture and politics still be found? The authors who take part in this issue have skilfully risen to the challenge: by working on the problem of urban planning, areas of exclusion, industrial areas, the suburbs, as well as the “symbolic centres” of cities (such as theatres or boulevards) or on thematic-cultural planning bound to remembrance, like that of parks. The gaze issue and putting into perspective constantly returns as a restriction of those power relations on which the political dimension is based.