ABSTRACT
The concluding words recapitulate how, since the days of the agora, a literary perspective has been relevant for the life and understanding of city squares. In 1990, Richard Sennett asked: “How can we create spaces that are like beginnings in a novel and that people will gradually develop through use and take over?” (58). The conclusion of this book is that the history of city squares has always been a history of dramatic and narrative spaces, and that we are still looking for the urban spaces where history and histories merge.
