Abstract

[Lifes in search of politics. Biographical and autobiographical narrative as a resource and as a method of a discourse on the city] This paper proposes a reflection on the theme of the "right to the city" which recovers the value framework of social democracy inscribed in the Italian Constitution of 1948. To do this, a peculiar visual angle is used, which is the one which valorises the experience in a political sense, starting from biographical and autobiographical literature, with particular reference to that of urban planners. The observation point of view of the latter, when detached from the scientific nature of academic writings and entrusted to the more personal gaze of one's own experience and one's relationship with the city, opens up interpretations of great interest for the questions that a sustainable and reasonable government policy of the territories must be asked today. A particular focus is dedicated to the biographical and autobiographical writings of Enzo Scandurra, a highly sensitive urban planner who very effectively chose to combine the narrative of lives and places with the scientific one.