Benvenuti sul sito: Progetto città

A meeting with the Secretary General of the Italian Islamic Cultural Center, Dr. Abdellah Redouane, a really special Roman citizen. He tells us about his relationship with the Eternal City, the life of the islamic community, which in particular works in Rome, so that integration can really become an opportunity of growth for the whole city. A look at Project City.

Interview by Paolo Balduzzi- Rome

A parent's generosity progresses from playing with children, to starting a soccer clinic, to establishing  an actual  soccer club.

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E' giunto alla terza edizione il Premio "Fraternità - Città di Benevento".

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One starts to have experience of the State later, perhaps when one becomes a parent, or starts work and starts paying taxes; it is then that one becomes fully aware of the other ‘we’.

By Ilaria Pedrin

Human beings are social beings, and thus they need to have relationships with other human beings in order to grow and develop. These relationships are an essential part of human nature. On the biological level, each one of us exists because two persons – the parents – have met and mated. Then, from birth onwards, life enfolds as a continuous growth through interaction with the others and the world around us.

By Ilaria Pedrini

Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical invites us to work more and to work better for the city. Sergio Chiamparino, Mayor of Turin, commenting on what the Pope has written, proposes a new citizenship pact to unite public authorities and those they serve in a common commitment.

By Paolo Balduzzi

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College (USA), and previously she taught at Harvard University for 17 years.
In the video that you can find here, Schor defines "good" the kind of social life, that in a city is born not from a fight in scarsity conditions, but in a context of abundance and plenitude, which has its novelty in sharing.

"I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world".

(Socrates, Greek philosopher)

"We are running the risk of making our cities places where business goes ahead, but where life, in the proper sense of the word, is lost".

(Hubert Horatio Humphrey)

"The city is the master of man".

(Simonide di Ceo, Greek philosopher)

"The city is not merely a mass of bricks. It is that strange thing that is relationships between people".

(Italo Calvino)

The second part of the interview to Daniela Mori.

By Paolo Balduzzi- Florence