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are we saving the planet? a simple, important and, I believe, welcomed question, exactly in a professional entourage which is, at first sight, less political: in architecture and urbanism. but the architecture, being less of an intersection point of economic, environmental and social, therefore, sustainable processes, is actually politics by its essence. if we perceive architecture as a process and not as an object, then we slowly come closer to the finest understanding of what we call sustainability.

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The theoretical thinking has suffered, in the late modernity, a certain shift in its axis. The first question troubling the contemporary conscience is not (any longer) the one formulated in a famous monologue – to be or not to be? –, but rather the following one: to action or not to action? A question accompanied by an undeniable sense of urgency, the reason for which we consider that it is – has become – the first question. In a certain way, we are dealing with the same problem: we can’t be if we don’t action. It is the very condition

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A WINTER NIGHT’S DREAM

Mihai Pienescu A WINTER NIGHT’S DREAM

Perhaps this was the reason for the present issue of the review to include storytellers, dreamers and inventors in a theoretical debate, as formulas to approach and understand the possible worlds of yesterday, and as techniques of imagination, anticipation, and intuition of the probable worlds of tomorrow, as well. Therefore, feel free to interpret or imagine architecture (and town planning) as a narration and / or a story, with one of the great storytellers, dreamers or inventors from yesterday, today and perhaps

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