E 'is now common sense on the part of planners and environmentalists that the city spread of Western-style North American metropolises and megacities of the South have become a real social and ecological disaster.
The model of Italian cities although tempered by the layers of history still visible in city centers, it is now dictated by speculation than by public planning.
Along the meshes of a network connecting the nodes of economic and financial power, lies a city without territory quality. A city exploded, composed of fragments of architecture and urban design, urban submerged by a tidal wave.
dominates the choice of simplification which reduces the complexity and richness of meaning and sense, a single standardized model, unable, therefore, to accept differences, to allow dialogue and relationship between them.
urbanism in its institutional forms do not seem to understand, much less to address the magnitude of the disaster, and most municipalities do not govern the transformation, having culturally legitimized the global commodification of urban space. We do not want to deny the great difficulties that the government found themselves in recent years in terms of resources and tools, but we think that the difficulties can not justify a renunciation of the role of government of the territory and instead require an effort, a commitment to rigor and to affirm the value of creativity priority for safeguarding the collectively, which implies, in our view, social justice and real democracy.
The way they actually live and becomes a city, has much to do with the daily lives of its inhabitants, with its difficulties and hopes and urban planning can not be matter of a few, is a question of all: the recent conflicts practiced by citizens who defend their territory from harmful and unnecessary operations put demands and claims which deserve to be heard, not only in their content but also because he brought back some hope of a return to urban planning shared.
Suburbs in, under the Centre's outreach program of urban land for 2008 sought to emphasize the decline of the city, more and more undifferentiated, banal and devoid of quality. The disastrous consequences of urban contracted pose the question of ethical responsibility, and we will not talk about appropriate behavior from a legal standpoint, as the ability to make choices not dictated by sheer necessity quota, but the concern and care for the consequences on today and future generations. A Livorno
unfortunately continues cement without qualities, without that you can create an effective opposition to change the face of the city.
After the terrible impact of the Bridge of the Holy Trinity, we are proposed transformation of the hotel in silos looming on the Old Fortress although it is apparent the need for a replacement with more environmentally friendly architecture of the Medici's masterpiece.
have already said that you have missed too many opportunities to remedy the destruction of the Terme del Corallo, the last door of the Earth, whose schedule could include the recovery of this important historic area. Were made in the demolition of the Odeon cinema, (and too late have raised the voices of Sgarbi on duty), despite opposition from sectors of society youth committed against the desertification of the center. More
, still insist to alienate other public spaces and to build on streets and lawns as in Viale Caprera and Piazza del Luogo Pio. The proposal to move the hospital in Livorno, after decentralization in inhospitable and poorly served areas of urban land and financial offices, no other logic than that of speculation. The malfunctioning of the hospital has little to do with the structure and much to do with poor health.
Moreover, the area is so wide as to allow any functional change, and its redevelopment has already been spent millions of Euros. The operation
Porta a Mare is ending under the eyes of the locals in full evidence with the construction of new buildings on the former site, now almost completed. It 'obvious that this has much to do with the monetization of a former industrial area for the exclusive benefit of entrepreneurs in the brick, without any public counterpart, and very little with the transformation of the Medici in beautiful harbor marina (which could be for its large carrying capacity and one of the most important position in the Mediterranean). Nothing
port then, more than a parking lot of boats, as demonstrated by the recent proposals for the revival of the private marina Marina, which is repeated with some minor modifications, after twenty years. Tragically
the old plan ends with the resolutions of overbuilding of the project under the New Park Centre, yet another shameless speculation, having already consumed all the building areas, outside of any public utility.
must re-establish the urban closing any further cases of sale of public and community spaces, beginning a work of far-reaching areas of acquisition, which has become available, the former disused barracks to the railway stations, a City ecologically and socially sustainable . Having
market-driven creation of new squares hypermarket, a closed, claustrophobic and alienating, in place of historical spaces for socialization, invaded the streets and squares from the traffic, rather than bringing social and civic centers to find the meaning of community, is the most obvious result of urban design and the sad fate of modern urbanism. The mayor of Livorno
spoke of the need for a new Master Plan of the city, but to regulate what kind of city? You can open a confrontation, a real involvement on what we think the future for our region and our social fabric? And to paint the future, it would be inappropriate to rethink, with impartiality and without hesitation, what they produced and what effects have resulted in previous plans? Reconstruct the experiences of participatory planning as well as a renewed centrality of public institutions in the government of the territory is the commitment and concrete utopia of the observatory, which calls on all citizens, starting with the network of associations active in the area to continue the comparison to counter the commodification of the city.
Despite the heavy damage to cultural economic and social crisis without yet another outlet of capitalism of the twentieth century has produced in the world with its devastating wars and crusades neo-corservatrici, one can see evidence of change of opinion (s america 'Obama) and extend into the pockets of rebellion against society and the territories (the movement of students and teachers who are trying to reclaim the future).
While it is too heavy a clear involution of the political crisis that somehow represent what remains of the left alternative, even the effervescence of the movement of initiatives often covers a gap in the overall proposal.
therefore seems urgent to open with the network of associations and committees Livorno (starting with the table participation) the debate around the outlines of a shared city open and welcoming, socially and ecologically sustainable.
Maybe you could start from town owned land for a political undertaking, who gave a new and small minority of citizens, tired of stupidity and hate campaigns and safety, the desire to return to build a representation also institutional with a project of humanity and alternative world, and a concrete proposal for a territorial government to propose to the city.
Livorno December 16, 2008
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