RECONSTRUCTION BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: Comparing Historical Cities - The Reconstruction of The Urban Fabric: Two Parallel Study Cases Riga and L’Aquila: Town Hall Square in Riga (Latvia) And Santa Maria Paganica square and Ciancone1 block (Onna) in L’Aquila (Italy).

In the decades following the Second World War, the city of Riga the capital city of Latvia, which suffered a large-scale destruction during the conflict, was subjected to an urban reconstruction that led to the reappearance of entire sections of its traditional urban fabric. The issue of how to reconstruct the built fabric of towns and cities, whether Individual buildings, blocks or entire districts, has been a major concern for all who have suffered war or natural disaster. In the city of L’Aquila and in general in all the small villages around the city this issue was placed very clearly after the 2009 earthquake. Several urban blocks was destroy by the earthquake as the case of the Onna village and the theme was how to reconstruct the urban fabric as a traditional, in a contemporary style or maybe using aa traditional urban fabric with some innovative lines.