The research carried out aims to suggest a reflection on the urban form of contemporary cities, product of the emblematic dualism between globalization and local identity. The phenomena of transformation which affect the big metropoles are investigated in their collision with the place. History and memory clash with technology and change, and the results are not at all predictable. The urban morphology is the main parameter of comparison to take as staring point in the analysis of typologies, space, movement, and human habits. The purpose is not to provide answers about the criticality of the city, rather an observation through perhaps a renovated awareness about weights and measures on which the city of today takes shape, alters, and becomes something.