Socialization, strolling and play are three aspirations that urban planning should pursue. In this triad, Italian educator Francesco Tonucci, Frato, detects one of the highest levels of a city’s maturity, addressing the needs of children as regards public space.

Vegetation constructs by means of a variable epistemology that never remains the same or in the same place. Urban groves, grassy esplanades, shade during the summer months and the shelter of trees or hedges are joyous invitations to eliminate the dilemma between country and concrete.

Could it be that, while we care for our cities, they, too, have therapeutic properties?

Part of the metropolitan experience also involves undoing the way we discriminate today between production time and leisure time. Or, in other words, one of the main symptoms of our right to the city is how to singularize something that came into being as a parameter.