Contemporary cities and the presence of the church

Abstract

The contemporary European city is shown as composed of two distinct and deeply diverse parts in the compositional and meaningful characteristics: the historical center, with a fabric sedimented over the centuries, usually of modest dimensions and still recognizable in its ancient limits; and the periphery, which in little more than a century has reached much greater dimensions than the entire surface of the old core. The two parts differ from each other in regard to the structure of the urban fabric, either because of the different quality of the places of socialization, or already, in a concrete way, as regards the presence and presence of the sacred.
In order to grasp the reasons and the main elements of the contemporary city, in order to evaluate what the possible role of a cultic place plays in it, it is necessary to go through the fundamental stages of the development of the city and try to understand the important reasons in relation to what sacrum.