By carrying out a spatial analysis of the Milan urban area and its outermost branches, it is possible to trace and highlight some contemporary "zones", defined as "thresholds" or "liminals" (from limes=border): disconnected from the urban web in which they are inserted, they experience an external, transitory and non-linear temporality. Locked in limbo between what was (but is no longer) and what will be (but is not yet), they results without any connection between their design and the environment in which they are inserted and respond effectively to the commercial needs of the "vehicular society".
Defined by Marc Augè as "non-lieu" or "spaces of transition or transformation, waiting areas between one point in time and space and the next", they are also classified by the term "Exurb" or of the "terrein vague": uncertain lands, junkspaces, not urban but not even suburban outside the city limits but linked to it by economic or commuting relationships.
The work is structured as an "Archive of the contemporary", composed of a set of sociological photographs (pre-archaeology) which aim to document the current state of the city and to suggest an alternative spatial thinking that points to the " Reappropriation” of these Urban Spaces throught sharing and socializing, freeing them from the commercial logic of the vehicular society intrinsic to their design.