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La città fa scuola, la scuola fa città

Dallo spazio pubblico ai cortili scolastici per una rinnovata permeabilità
  • Benedetta Masiani,

Within the context of contemporary urban transformations, the school–city relationship emerges as a privileged field of experimentation for rethinking public space. Exploring their reciprocal permeability enables the envisioning of an integrated, dynamic, and generative system of public spaces, grounded in the progressive blurring of boundaries between these domains. Schools thus act as civic infrastructures and catalysts of both material and immaterial transformations, contributing to framing the city as a pedagogical environment, where interactions between places and communities foster collective growth, strengthen social cohesion, and orient pathways toward sustainable development. School extends beyond its physical limits, activating an educational and relational dimension structured through networks of connections, flows, and spaces of encounter that intertwine with the urban and social fabric. What emerges is a mutually generative condition in which boundaries dissolve and roles converge: the city as school, the school as city.

  • Keywords:
  • Urban pedagogy,
  • School-city relationship,
  • Public Space; Participatory design,
  • Urban regeneration,
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Benedetta Masiani

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3551-017X

Benedetta Masiani is a researcher at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. Her work focuses on the relationship between urbanism and pedagogy, exploring the role of schools in urban regeneration projects and of play-based practices in informal learning, with particular attention to the participation of children and adolescents in shaping urban transformation.
Parte prima - La città fa scuola: lo spazio pubblico come ambiente di apprendimento
Parte seconda - La scuola fa città: spazi aperti scolastici per educare alla città della transizione
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Book Title

La città fa scuola, la scuola fa città

Book Subtitle

Dallo spazio pubblico ai cortili scolastici per una rinnovata permeabilità

Authors

Benedetta Masiani

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450

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0929-8

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979-12-215-0928-1

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979-12-215-0929-8

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979-12-215-0930-4

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Premio Tesi di Dottorato Città di Firenze

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3103-3881

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3103-3989

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