'E-urbanism'

We usually pay little attention to the cities we live in, appreciating only a small percentage of the surrounding landscape and using just some of our five senses – mainly sight and hearing. We find ourselves enraptured by the beauty of some glimpses; alternatively seduced or horrified by contemporary architectures, which are often the result of administrative decisions of those holding powerful positions. Because of these overwhelming sensory inputs, we are nothing but sleepy viewers nervously jumping at the sound of cars' horns and at their relentless speeding up and slowing down. In an increasing number of spaces, moving around is as easy as a click, which considerably increases our space accessibility; we rest in those tiny and impersonal places that we used to call houses, without even realising that the ‘spaces we live‘ actually no longer have walls and furnished floors but rather roads, pathways and surfaces.1 We no longer have blood ties but de facto relationships based on virtual contacts and fortuitous encounters; we find ourselves swimming in an apnoea where social touch and the pleasure of commitment are drowsy senses, just like the sense of community. We are the inhabitants of contemporary cities.