From Urban Regeneration to Transitional Communities. Tales and Perspectives from the City of Nanjing

The work intends to support and consolidate the paradigm of transitional morphologies in urban morphological studies, through the consideration that, in order to understand the contemporary city, the study of the urban form in its dynamics of transformation (and not only in their final outcomes) can / should assume a crucial role. The contribution proposed here is dedicated to seven years of studies and research (and urban projects, too, conducted with heuristic intentions within a school of architecture) on the urban morphology of the southern part of the historical walled city of Nanjing, China.