Designing with strata as a tool to redefine urban morphology. The case of the archaeological areas of Ancona

City Renewal and Urban Archaeology The Morphological Value of City Traces ISUFitaly, International Seminar on Urban Form, Italian Network, organizes its seventh Conference in Naples on 19-21 February 2026. The theme of the conference is “City Renewal and Urban Archaeology. The Morphological Value of City Traces”. Following the previous ISUFitaly conferences themes, dealing mainly with the relationships between urban morphology, history and architectural design, the seventh Conference aims to pose the problem of the relationship between the emergence of urban archaeological traces and the often conspicuous morphological value that this formal legacy can potentially generate through urban design as tool to establish links between contemporary city and artefacts from the past: through the creation of large-scale urban archaeological parks or the construction of archaeological roofs; through establishing unprecedented relationship with infrastructures related to underground level different form those of the city ‘in surface’. The theme of urban continuity/discontinuity in the contemporary city and the role of urban architecture as a necessary intermediary, or condition of possibilities, between the historical city, the public space and possible congruent transformations in the contemporary age, are thus re-proposed.