Matera. Un laboratorio urbano all’aperto.

The interference and the inevitable contamination of the forms of the contemporary city and the space in the agricultural areas of low density have produced original and extremely dynamic realities that require to reconsider the size of the peri-urban area in light of a new phenomenology that is expressed through the concept of "rur-urbanity". The reconstruction of local events related to the metamorphosis of the Italian agricultural landscape can now become a guide in the process of re-reading of Italian history from the reconstruction of its southern cities out of the rhetoric of North-South dualities and historiographical oppositions unity-disunity. This work intends to start a reflection on an important season of Italian city planning in which Matera stands to the center of large relief events. Across the contrasts urbanity-rurality we would try to trace, in the complexity of the spatiality of the last decades, sent in pieces from the contemporaneousness, stories which talk about solid and simple shapes able to return the riches of the territoriality of a remote past that can return useful to rebuild a critical disillusioned distance between tradition and innovation.