"... The city is a work of art, not merely a material product. Historic cities are a work of art. New cities, the urban suburbs, are, very often, a simplified, functional, quantitative response to people's needs. They arise from a social and economic drive and meet almost exclusively functional requirements. Function is necessary, but the problem is how to achieve it. In many cases, there is a lack of an idea of the city, an idea of the construction of the places of human life; the humanistic aspect that distinguishes historic cities is missing. The evocative aspect that architecture usually produces is not present. I don't think that this (provoking emotions) is denied to contemporary architecture; indeed, the many realized examples say otherwise, but they are minor compared to the mass of insignificant constructions that surround us and have been built since after World War II." [Interview with Prof. Gino Malacarne, Uniradio Cesena].