We are no longer dealing with the expansion of cities, of new building volumes that just occupy territory, of an urban spread that overlaps rural areas, of mega-shopping centres that divert attention to alleged new hubs. On the coast of the Middle Adriatic, these signs are clear: parallel belts of infrastructure, houses, and hills face the sea and run monotonously from north to south; from the train it is possible to see the pieces of a chil­d’s toy construction set (Silvia Balle­stra, Compleanno dell’Iguana, Milan, 1991); and, amidst the houses, there ra­rely appear the renewed signs of public space to tell us what being outside means today for the contempo­rary inhabitants of comfortable homes equipped with all the requirements of the Corbusian machine, soon to be telematic with plasma images pretty much everywhere.