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HISTORY TEACHES RESILIENCE istory teaches us that many people have had their resilience put to the test in order to overcome an unexpected crisis: resilience is a capacity needed by materials and plants, animals and people, communities and states. When faced with a crisis, it is best to move forward towards a goal of resilience, building a new and functional balance in order to recover from a big and sudden change. For centuries, writers, philosophers, physicists and historians from all over the world have been writing and talking about it. Giacomo
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HOW HAVE OUR CITIES CHANGED IN THE WAKE OF UNEXPECTED EVENTS? WE CAN SEE HOW IN THE STRATEGIES THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE TO RESPOND TO THE 1973 OIL CRISIS (SIMILAR TO THE LOCKDOWN CAUSED BY COVID-19). A TIME WHEN METROPOLITAN AREAS FOUND THEMSELVES WITH CARS AT A HALT, LEFT WITHOUT POWER AMONG ROAD SIGNS AND LAMPPOSTS. N° 6 - DECEMBER 2020
