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Critical Planning and DesignConcrete Community and Territorial Principle in Adriano Olivetti’s Thought

Critical Planning and Design: Concrete Community and Territorial Principle in Adriano Olivetti’s... [Reflecting on two fundamental concepts of “concrete community” and “territorial principle” and their connections, the chapter traces back Adriano Olivetti’s progress from the purely philanthropic culture of an “enlightened” entrepreneur to a practice of community self-government of territories which advocates for a general reform of the institutional hierarchy. Such progress, founded on a “holistic” conception of territory as a historical-social subject pre-existent to production relationships, and resulting in a political project in which the primary decision-making level resides in local territories, was interrupted by its defeat in 1958 elections; but this did not diminish its impressive anticipating power, covering fields like production governance, corporate responsibility, urban and regional planning, and theory and practice of democracy. And culminating in a territorial project which anticipates the spirit of integrated multi-sector districts and even the environmental care relationships typical of the “urban bioregion” perspective, interpreting the “life worlds” of populations as foundations of the entire socio-economic development model.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Planning and DesignConcrete Community and Territorial Principle in Adriano Olivetti’s Thought

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Perrone, Camilla
Magnaghi, Alberto
Critical Planning and Design — Jul 24, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-030-93106-3
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57 –68
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10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0_4
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[Reflecting on two fundamental concepts of “concrete community” and “territorial principle” and their connections, the chapter traces back Adriano Olivetti’s progress from the purely philanthropic culture of an “enlightened” entrepreneur to a practice of community self-government of territories which advocates for a general reform of the institutional hierarchy. Such progress, founded on a “holistic” conception of territory as a historical-social subject pre-existent to production relationships, and resulting in a political project in which the primary decision-making level resides in local territories, was interrupted by its defeat in 1958 elections; but this did not diminish its impressive anticipating power, covering fields like production governance, corporate responsibility, urban and regional planning, and theory and practice of democracy. And culminating in a territorial project which anticipates the spirit of integrated multi-sector districts and even the environmental care relationships typical of the “urban bioregion” perspective, interpreting the “life worlds” of populations as foundations of the entire socio-economic development model.]

Published: Jul 24, 2022

Keywords: Adriano Olivetti; Concrete community; Territorial principle; Territorial self-government; Territorial project; Urban bioregion; Life worlds

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