‘Architecture and city. Learning from European Capitals of Culture’ can be downloaded free of charge from the Trieste University Press (EUT) catalogue https://eut.units.it/en/catalogo/architecture-and-city-learning-from-european-capitals-of-culture/10053

The volume explores forty years of the European Capital of Culture Programme as a tool for urban transformation and regeneration: this is the first organic attempt to ‘line up’ the European Capitals of Culture from Athens in 1985 to Nova Gorica/Gorizia in 2025 by systematically comparing them and highlighting the relationship between the Programme, related event, outcomes and, above all, legacy, i.e. their urban and architectural heritage. 

Between case studies, essays and mappings, the UniTS authors Thomas Bisiani, Sonia Prestamburgo and Adriano Venudo tell how architecture, temporary events, art, cultural events and strategies can generate new urban futures.

A collective and interdisciplinary journey that explores the image of the city and designs its evolving reality.

‘Architecture and city. Learning from European Capitals of Culture’ is the result of the teaching and research activities developed in the RRR Lab (2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years), with the contribution of the COLGO! and VAGO student associations.