'Ordo civitatis': the birth of the city and the urbanization of the philosophical landscape

Some reflections on the relationship between the city, freedom, and order during the period of transition from the feudal to the bourgeois ages. In sum, the aggregation and disaggregation of cities across the centuries have been part of a greater order which periodically loses and finds its centre, oscillating between unity and multiplicity, between the ‘one’ and the ‘many’ of classical and Platonic thought. Urbanization is the topographical expression of an ordering attitude whose aim, in a knowledge context, is to obtain the methodological certainty of discourse.