BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The XII AISU Congress (Palermo\, September 10-13\, 2025) is org anized by the AISU with the Department of Architecture of the University o f Palermo. Early registration opens May 26. Regular registration from June 5. \;https://aisuinternational.org/en/palermo-2025-quote-di-partecipa zione/ \;The crossroad city: \;Relations and exchanges\, intersect ions and crossing points in urban realitiesCities have exerted an irresist ible force of attraction since antiquity and over the centuries\, and stil l do today\, representing themselves as places of aggregation\, of exchang e\, sometimes of permanent settlement but frequently also of passage. In m any respects and from different points of view\, the city appears on many occasions to be a real crossroad\, a place where cultures\, religions\, po wer groups and institutions meet but also clash\, a theatre of markets and trade\, a temporary landing place in the context of broader and more dyna mic migratory processes\, a place where urban design ideas and realisation s are debated and technical confrontations are held\; sometimes it is the urban form itself that materialises the concept of crossroads\, in foundat ion or refoundation projects\, material or symbolic\, of the built environ ment. The 12th AISU Congress intends to produce investigations and promote debates on the city as a crossroad\, in the material but also metaphorica l meaning of the term\, with a multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approac h and from the multiple points of view that contribute to define urban his tory studies.In this sense\, the city in the broad sense of a crossroad wi ll be explored in the following wide-ranging macro-sessions conceived as s paces of confrontation and integration between dialoguing disciplines:1. C ities and migrations\; 2. Cities and powers\; 3. Cities and city networks\ , trade\, fairs and markets\; 4. Multicultural and multireligious cities\; 5. Cities and spaces of versatility\; 6. Cities at the crossroads of urba n design ideas and realisations/ crossroads and predetermined schemes in c ity design\; 7. Cities at the crossroads of experiences\, materials and te chnologies and as places of interchange of technical culture. DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250914 DTSTAMP:20250510T045158Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250910 LOCATION:Italy\,Palermo SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Crossroad City: Relations and exchanges\, intersections and cro ssing points in urban realities UID:RFCALITEM638824495184616163 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The XII AISU Congress (Palermo\, September 10-13\, 2025) is organized by the AISU with the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. Early registration opens May 26. Regular re gistration from June 5. \;

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The crossroad city: \;Relations and exchange s\, intersections and crossing points in urban realities

Ci ties have exerted an irresistible force of attraction since antiquity and over the centuries\, and still do today\, representing themselves as place s of aggregation\, of exchange\, sometimes of permanent settlement but fre quently also of passage. In many respects and from different points of vie w\, the city appears on many occasions to be a real crossroad\, a place wh ere cultures\, religions\, power groups and institutions meet but also cla sh\, a theatre of markets and trade\, a temporary landing place in the con text of broader and more dynamic migratory processes\, a place where urban design ideas and realisations are debated and technical confrontations ar e held\; sometimes it is the urban form itself that materialises the conce pt of crossroads\, in foundation or refoundation projects\, material or sy mbolic\, of the built environment. The 12th AISU Congress intends to produ ce investigations and promote debates on the city as a crossroad\, in the material but also metaphorical meaning of the term\, with a multi-scalar a nd multi-disciplinary approach and from the multiple points of view that c ontribute to define urban history studies.

In this sense\, the city in the broad sense of a crossroad will be explored in the following wide-r anging macro-sessions conceived as spaces of confrontation and integration between dialoguing disciplines:

1. Cities and migrations\; 2. Citie s and powers\; 3. Cities and city networks\, trade\, fairs and markets\; 4 . Multicultural and multireligious cities\; 5. Cities and spaces of versat ility\; 6. Cities at the crossroads of urban design ideas and realisations / crossroads and predetermined schemes in city design\; 7. Cities at the c rossroads of experiences\, materials and technologies and as places of int erchange of technical culture.

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