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MONITORING URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS - LIVORNO
participative urban
To outline the basic elements of a new participatory planning, the OTU departed from presuppose some shared: There are rules of efficiency in services and non-market public service has a purpose that does not are never related to having to ensure maximum profit, with the same resources, the most effective social.
But today more and more prevalent logic for the management of private- assets of public interest, which has direct consequences on the quality of life of people we are witnessing the looting of the most valuable of our municipality, by speculators building speculators "and the sale-sale of real estate that would be unavailable for a heritage their strategic importance.
remember that one of the main tasks of planning is to promote respect for the natural and proper preservation of the historical evidence to reshape a harmonious and balanced a city that is democratic and public space, shared by the communities that live in the area and they caring, being invested with the responsibility to participate in choices.
Making Participatory planning is therefore a necessity to stop the civil, moral and material degradation of our environment and a powerful tool to revitalize the meaning and practice of citizenship.
To do so, require that, before the drafting of the new plan, the council draw up a proposal for participation in urban planning, with clear objectives, precise indication of time, place, method, tools and resources, a policy document signed, too, by planners called to redraw the city.
During previous experience as Cisternino 2020, young facilitators were trained and prepared, and open discussion about choices urban realities have emerged important (beyond our OTU): environmental groups, citizens' committees, volunteer organizations, and citizens, but also single, available to mobilize and collaborate with institutions.
PLANNING
and participatory processes in participatory processes to be distinguished between those who participate in designing their own city (active citizenship) and who will benefit from economic change and regional (economic).
None of us seeks to challenge the principle of the proper operation of private interests, of course within the rules and restrictions binding on everyone, provided they are not misunderstood, confusing with the public interest and do not adversely affect the rights of the community.
It 'still essential to find a central place (on the model of urban ateliers of Paris or of' Urban center) to collect all the existing material, product, and being developed, freely available, to always know what is really are discussing. One such center will remain operational even after the drafting of the plan, so that continuous and effective participation.
need to plan, from an idea, a model of social organization, from which to derive consistent and strict guidelines, from the general direction of the Region and Province land use, measures to safeguard, conservation and sustainable development, identifying upstream strategic structures of intermunicipal and interprovincial wide area.
Then it comes to photography, through research and analysis work, the state of affairs of our municipality, indicate the need for services, the signs of deterioration and undermining social and environmental issues, and propose a condition of the premises, rules, constraints and tools for implementing the proposals until the detail of implementation rules.
E 'be expected that, during the confrontation, assumptions and proposals will be formalized in stark contrast, not having to elude each other, but be further discussed through shared parameters, which define the factors of improvement and deterioration of people's lives.
So one of the first issues to confront is that of the general categories of assessment to identify public benefits and social costs, because from here descend to choose an appropriate priority. The OTU
has identified some categories of measurement of the proposals for urban transformation, some indices of well-being, environmental, economic and social, on the contrary, worsening living conditions. There seem
elements of public interest improving self-energy, reducing waste and consumption, increased use of renewable resources, reducing the need to use private transport, increasing the supply of public and private collective transport, the increase of social and cultural spaces, civic centers, facilities for leisure activities for fun and out of the market, the increase in public housing.
Among the unacceptable social costs, we have identified additional waste and consumption of common goods, from the territory.
The extension of settlements already hypertrophied, hypermarkets and service industry, it produces waste that do not comply with the times, ways and means of disposal, aggravate the problems of private and commercial traffic, to the community: therefore it should be regulated with special laws and conventions that guarantee the common interest (including compatibility with the historic commercial center).
should select from among the requests for proposals that ensure the production facilities working good and stable agricultural production methods compatible with the objectives of sustainable development, encouraging the full utilization of existing facilities, where it stopped or never started the work.
In any case, prevent the establishment of new and renovated facilities that are not designed with energy self-sufficiency criteria and systems for collecting rainwater, or which involve reductions in the system of public and private green concentrated and widespread.
predict an inclusive examination of the methods used in Italy: Agenda 21, the ateliers d'urbanisme, open spaces, workshops, community maps and the "Participatory planning sites, already tested in some municipalities. Probably
integrating these methods, of which there is a large and well documented theory and practice, you may get satisfactory results.
For example, Agenda 21, with questions properly reasoned, could perform the first step in highlighting the problems: lack of services on the survey of neighborhoods, from kindergartens to social centers, shops and commercial buildings in the neighborhood, the system widespread health etc.
could be lying in Agenda 21 receive criticisms of citizens about the traffic, the shortcomings of public transport, concerns about the proximity of antenna towers, repeaters or other settlements in pollution, protests over the excessive noise at night or vice versa over desertification .
addition, a well-designed and promoted use of participatory processes, could stimulate the curiosity and the success of "public." We think the proposal for a system of guided walks in the green spread and concentrated in the city, and from the hills to the sea, to identify jointly the possibility of reconnection, overcoming the many fractures created with excess cement produced by a "modernity" of short duration.
equally important to prepare a draft trails to historic sites, to provide an introductory guide to understanding the stratification of the city in time to recover and identify the memory structures the most important witness for the entire community, the system of walls and ditches , to urban and suburban villas, the old Spa Coral, ect.
Laboratories or "sites" may be places where citizens and the city forward proposals, compares the experience.
the need to be able to see the documentation in full transparency and real-time, we have already spoken: this is the essential element for any participatory process.
Without it lacks any suggestion to the same conditions of participation. In the former House of Culture would be hosting the workshops planning of the locals, a good culmination of a lot of expectations created by CISTERNINO 2020.
OPEN SPACE may be the appropriate tool to discuss the city model proposed by the Town Council, and to identify, expand and deepen the examination of the parameters of "measuring" the effects produced by new developments or change of intended 'Use of central and peripheral areas already built.
However, more than the choice of a method rather another and its proper application, has the political will to really build participation and the credibility of the mayor to respect the outcome.
The information phase is central, so important to the cooperation of local media, the use of posters and / or electronic panels, clearly visible and concentrated in places frequented by citizens. CONCLUSIONS
Our goal is to design with a healthy city, transformed in respect of ecology, its history, its vocation, preservation and care of common goods, and thorough use of resources, reduction of waste, a city social democratic public place, with modern facilities well distributed inclusive, civic centers, cultural and social housing affordable and public housing common.
The control of the plan, the transparency of data of the parties made, allowing everyone to verify the implementation in line with the PRG, it is equally important: if they were upset the intended use and the amount of area provided, the processes participatory planning would be unnecessary.
We are not alone in this effort, and find support from the best part of active citizenship: to do so just subscribe to our blog and talk to us (it would be desirable to convene a public meeting open for late February-early March).
LIVORNO February 2, 2011
