"Città Milano" no. 7, 2000 - Finisce il XX secolo
It is time for memories: an increasingly difficult task because never as in the last hundred years civilisation, progress, and history have imposed such a rapid, voracious consumption, such a fast digestion of facts, events, protagonists, fashions, backgrounds, aesthetics, tragedies, revolutions and restorations, customs of life and places where those ways of life took place.
Little by little, the metamorphoses became more convulsive. What was present, the next day was already profoundly past. What was modern, the next day tasted decrepit.
The history of the 20th century devoured itself at a frantic pace. It did so in dramatic ways as well, accelerating the breakdown of "lived" experience through two wars and reducing to rubble much of the city that had borne witness to that experience. A witness that was already fragile, even before the bombs, as the urban and architectural past had been radically overturned by redevelopment projects, demolitions, and the monumentalism promoted by Fascism.
"Città" tackles this difficult operation of historical memory around Milan, our 'old men,' our roots, and ourselves, with a journey through the Milanese century through more than one hundred photographs, accompanied by a year-by-year chronology of facts, personalities, and events in the news, politics, culture, sport, and city life. It is a walk down memory lane, a non-sugary 'how we were' so that each one of us renews the sense of belonging by remembering. A Milanese tale that everyone can read with their own feeling.
Alberto Savinio would have entitled it 'I listen to your heart, city'.
(Guido Vergani)
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