Dall'interessantissimo eddyburg.it , the "portal" by Edoardo Salzano of Urban Planning, politics and society , I point out:
Urban legend. The Old Town (not) (more) a common good.
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| Get the protection of historic centers was an important victory that the current form of commercialization of social life is dismantling. A speech written for eddyburg |
It was not easy to keep and re-affirm the idea of \u200b\u200bthe historical center as a common good, both in culture and economic, against any post-war ownership by the private interests of particular groups were large banks or real estate or range of interests trade. And despite the fact that Ricardo had already been identified in all of the actions of individual aggregates within the city the determinant of the different value of urban land than the surrounding agricultural and despite the value of the custody of a collective imagination was layered over time to recognized by historians and city planners and implicit in the culture of its inhabitants in the same behavior "Relational" in which streets, squares and buildings were used.
bears witness to the difficulties that the early 70's Pierluigi Cervellati tried in Bologna and in part created what remains one of the most daring and innovative urban Italian and that is the recovery of pieces of the historical city is in the sense that socio-cultural construction away from the inevitable result of a poor physical and / or functional together with the expulsion of the weaker from the heart of the city. Operation that viewed through the eyes of today is even more meritorious and "political" because it is capable of upholding the right of citizens not to be deprived of a good that their very presence helped to determine the "value".
I remember well, then I was a student of the Faculty, the scandal which was founded by prof. Piero Sanpaolesi Professor of Restoration of Monuments in the Faculty of Architecture of Florence and its Dean, the proposal made by the committees of the student movement to take a lesson on the theme of "Restoration / recovery of old towns" that seemed to spread as the theme from Bologna found in all historic cities.
That operation was followed and imitated more or less successful even beyond national borders and also met some If a certain continuity of action by the institutions of some small, medium and large Italian cities, but the social and political push for the preservation of the common good center went out gradually, not without some have known moments of real glory as in the case of the net prevalence of supporters of the closure to vehicular traffic in the historic center / referendums in Bologna, and this occurs against a coalition of business interests and real estate and private self-interest. Sure ephemeral glory is not enough to convince the city government deal with it "giving in", literally, the field to those who had lost the referendum, both in the sense of adopting the point of view of increasingly leave only to those interests and their holders the opportunity to have some part on decisions.
Bolognese comes from the story a story almost paradigmatic of the gradual dispossession of the urban societies their center as a meeting place for discussion, social relationships with others and delivered to the main function of consumption in the ways and the schedule determined by the economic interests of traders gradually affermantisi and / or imposed on any other common interest. Parable that there has also produced a Mayor (Guazzaloca) "industry" but everywhere besides cultural and political consequences even planning relevant.
spaces inland squares made available to any demonstration of commercial value, the triumph of dehors without rules or space (pedestrian crossings through compromised spaces) or aesthetic (visual end of perspectives, use of facilities and material incongruous with the context) or environmental (waste of energy and materials), the scaffolding of the construction in progress or become huge billboards advertising screens. The sale of heritage buildings to private or even public parks and even the union ordinances prohibiting parking of people on steps, benches, plazas
And yet, the space of streets and squares finally won the car in motion or stationary for the benefit of a few (who buys the privilege of living in the center also buys the privilege of parking under the house!?) and to the detriment of pedestrians and the opportunity to use a "slow "," free "," ecstatic "and" sustainable. " Recorded in Tokyo and Kyoto, the car can be parked in the center only in private spaces.
Not only the public space of the old town is alienated for private use in various ways: use of concessions, parking fee, selling advertising space etc, but even in the most recent developments in traffic policies (Sirius, Congestion Charge and the like) will be seeking new forms in the " enclosure" of a "common " (intangible technological barriers have replaced the fences and hedges) sell the right of access to those who have the ability to buy
Slowly the common good owned by the urban community and available to everyone to use and enjoy often together, has become an area of \u200b\u200bcontainer goods to be consumed in an individual and discriminated against. The move away from the center of the space where you could eat the murder of an alternative cultural production and self-managed (community centers and open spaces), or even practice how to dress "different" (squats or EC) has been generalized to complement the action of the urban authorities.
I do not know where it was coined for the first time the taxon with characteristics which are now above the historical towns in Tuscany and Emilia: "Nature Center" is common on signs, maps and brochures production institutional San Quirico d 'Orcia, Pienza, Vignola and Reggio Emilia, just to exemplify. Of course the inventive advertising used by the left (?) Governing those lands to recreate for the "restless swarm" (as defined by Z. Bauman) of consumers who have the same appeal as hypermarkets and outlets of the city, turning the Old Town Mall in Nature, shows a certain convergence with the mercantile ideology that promotes the right of center in the city he governed ..
So says the appeal against the closure of a COX 18 Milanese space animated by Primo Moroni: "The same old town from the gallery of ideas and a meeting has been gradually transformed into a place for only the affluent consumer to Featured decorated with bows of fashion "(the poster 29/01/2009 page20).
The destruction of a shared imagination that saw the center as a common good is consumed so in a bipartisan silence broken by rare and faint voices. For inscription could use the word appended by "criminal hand" just in Milan on a prohibition of access to the ecopass:
"RESTRICTED ZONE A THOUGHT". (M. Philopat, First love. The heretic heart of Milan, in the manifesto cited)
What do you think? Has sparked cortex and gray matter ?
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