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In Italy these days, or a part of it if you prefer, the question of the righteousness of Guido Bertolaso, and - in an instinctive craving simplistic that it can not contemplate the possibility that the hero of the moment can be either a humanly half savior half villain - is anxious to find evidence of corruption. In L'Aquila the evidence is there, are there for all to see, as implied, but concrete evidence, which is not very large chains to obscene displays of cynicism or a few phone venereal variously supposed benefits.
There are lots of evidence, and some are as big as a house, even as nearly half of almost 200 condominium tower blocks of the CASE project. In what follows I will try to explain why, beyond personal opinion, this operation is urban, ipso facto, an example of corruption that involves the system of Civil Defense in bribery with the local administration Aquila with the support of an impressive media propaganda, and between stunning, too much distraction or tacit assent of the committees and civil society in general about the connotation of the location of the project. To this end, from a couple of conceptual premises.
Before anything can be useful to clarify the meaning of the term 'corruption' refers to the political meaning that is between cultural anthropology and criminal law. The political scientist Gianfranco Pasquino, tells us that "political corruption is when is expressed in conduct contrary to the beliefs, values, culture of a society and, at the same time , most importantly, in a manner different than the laws that regulate the legitimate exercise of power in the public sphere. Therefore the object and extent of political corruption are all decisions taken or not taken by holders of political power that violate the general rules of law to pursue interests and particularistic benefits. " This definition emphasizes the things that political corruption depends not only on decisions taken by those who have power, but also from those not taken.
As a second premise should be a reminder of the European Landscape Convention, which the Italian Republic has implemented in 2006 to strengthen one of the most vilified articles of the Constitution, Article 9 (which states that 'the Republic promotes the development of culture and scientific and technical research. Protecting the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the Nation "). This legal device, from a definition landscape in terms of perception of the nature of a territory by those who inhabit it, called a view to sustainable development that provides for the maintenance of all landscapes, the idea that the landscape heritage is a key element to ensure the quality of life populations. The aim would be to meet the public's wish to enjoy a quality of geography and to play an active role in its transformation, where "active" means providing the right of the inhabitants of a place of self-determination of the characteristics of the same, leaving the Places can only be designed from the outside. In recognition of the legal landscape as essential component of the cultural identity of the people who inhabit it, the Convention requires that public authorities should maintain control and plan the landscape through strong forward-looking actions, aimed at preserving and maintaining the significant or characteristic of a landscape, to enhance, restore or create landscapes. This complements the political landscape in regional planning, urban planning, and initiating participatory procedures that take into account the aspirations of the people with regard to landscape features of their living environment.
Having said must now return briefly to the attention of a number of crucial events, resulting from the earthquake of 6 April 2009, concerning the imposition of an advanced type of emergency housing by the Civil Protection through the CASE project, and the subsequent negotiation of this project local authorities, in the negotiations which led to the possibility for the municipal administration, from the mayor Massimo Cialente employees and municipal planning, pre-determine the location of this project in the municipality of L'Aquila, accepting without reserves the typology proposed project at the national level.
The CASE project overlooking Eagle earthquake with a surprising alacrity, immediately after the earthquake, in the form of a promise from Silvio Berlusconi Aquila2. On April 11, 2009, news agencies reported statements by the President of the Council of Ministers, writing that "Berlusconi has ensured that the" new town "to be built next to the old city (" required by your mayor ") will not be a ghetto, but rather will be built, "with the local architectural language," the model and Milano2 Milano3. The mayor of L'Aquila seems that instead has never been too enthusiastic Berlusconi's new town (and Bertolaso), in fact, already on 8 April on Omnibus (broadcast issuer LA7) declares that "to build a new town would be to destroy and abandon the city."
The key factor that will define the basis of what has happened today in L'Aquila has the following month, when the Civil Defence welcomes Cialente dictated by three criteria: no to the New Town distributed throughout the new settlements and locate them as close as possible to the village. Considering that the type of housing complexes had already been defined in terms of condominiums equipped with stout plates earthquake (whose design was ready in the drawer of the Civil Protection) is already here that outlines a crime against the landscape. The first criterion says no to new town, then the condominiums of the CASE project could be placed around L'Aquila, but this does not happen and this decision is not taken. The mayor has used his commanding margin decision to place the blocks that have accommodated the homeless Aquila, not using the land near Eagle, but those countries. To say "as close as possible to the localities' is a clever way to say" as far as possible from Aquila. "
So the combination of the second and third criteria desired by the mayor meant that the territory of almost all countries of the Aquila was occupied by a second village is intended mainly to L'Aquila. This is the core of what has happened: first the local administration has accepted a type of construction imposed by the state, across the state has accepted the constraints imposed by the local localization, and this is how the CASE project - about half of the nineteen developed residential sites from it - as a case of political corruption because, by placing housing complexes in characteristics in urban and rural areas (ie building blocks in the country) is violated in many places, the European Landscape Convention. The countries affected by the earthquake located outside the town of Aquila had the most appropriate wooden houses, for those in the municipality of the capital, already symbolically dispossessed and reduced to appendages of autonomy through the use of horrible term "entities", no houses, but buildings in large quantities, mainly to establish Aquila's earthquake victims.
Then ask yourself why Cialente did not want the houses that were housed in emergency loan for the near L'Aquila L'Aquila. Public reason, touted not without a certain talent demagogic citizenship, identity, and secondly it was kind of bias linked to the houses in question were of low quality, the reason was the institutional and intimate type of economic patronage.
Regarding the first point to remember is that the Aquila2 Cialente was a threat to the city, threat averted downloading on Roio2, Camarda2, Sassa2, Assergi2, Paganica2 and so on: very "democratically" the city's identity was that of sacrificing defense of the surrounding countries, indeed, of "Fractions." But this is not the point, in this cloying and crass vernacular identity discourse gets worse.
offense at these maneuvers with talk of identity has been able to play a project to protect the interests of powerful groups Aquila. During the entire process of site selection and construction of these buildings many representatives of local authorities often have lied to the public waving the "we could not do anything", and which areas had decided only the civil protection, and that those chosen were the best places, indeed the only, as near L'Aquila could not be built because of a concomitant discovery of geological problems and antisismicità soil. Incidentally, just finished the construction of the CASE project, the results of micro-geological zoning made by the Civil Defence have ruled that you can build almost anywhere: with a fabulous timing hydrological and seismic constraints have disappeared from the land next to the city. In this way these properties, having been spared from the vicious expropriation for the CASE project, they can return to the climate that was on them before the earthquake, if not a better one: the lands in question are those which for thirty ' years everyone knows that, like in any other part of Italy, is being a very silent war of position among property developers, political and economic lobbies aimed at speculation. For someone in L'Aquila the earthquake there was, indeed, brought him luck. The directors of L'Aquila, with great honor for the ethics of which should relate to the left, chose to preserve the private interests of landowners against the collective ownership of land. The pretext of the emergency has made it a natural political ploy could hardly be envisaged in the past.
So in other words, the "pact Molotov-Ribbentrop "established between Civil Defence and mayor can be summed up in this line:" we do our houses, you protect the land that interests you and then you take the case ". Bertolaso \u200b\u200bhas publicly admitted that the final choice of the land was taken by the Civil Protection, but, mind you, after a preset where - first of all Cialente through its policies, then the planners of the town in detail - the local authorities have indicated to preserve the land. The civil defense planners have candidly admitted that it was important for them these houses do it, where they could also the municipality to decide. Many city councilors say they have had the least weight in this negotiation between Cialente, its planners and the Civil Defence. These details, however, are mere accessories, I repeat, everything has been generated by the hypocritical policy of placing these condos for Aquila earthquake near the villages, that is far from the city.
course, then someone will also say that at the end of such violence on the territory of L'Aquila, as well as varying degrees of Italy, was already well used, even without earthquakes. Then, let alone with what has happened to us we have to think about the landscape. This they said the architects of urban masterpiece of which we write. The tracking system of the CASE project is just the latest episode of land management based on a rationality aimed more at the economic profit that the social welfare, after all is nothing new. So goes the world. No, this can not digest, so you can avoid presenting choices to the fatalism of the need, is accepting that events like this, a bit 'at a time, bury the world.
now Aquila Abruzzo is a land of miracles, and, as you know, miracles are almost always hoaxes propaganda. Aquila is a miracle in places like Camarda2, where a local world, who still managed to be genuinely Silone, finds himself with the country battered by the earthquake discovered on the hill in front of it a grotesque metastasis pool, one of the nineteen heterotopias that make up this frenzy of urban dispersion on a rural mountain area. In this geography of distance, range from a cross between a natural disaster and a social framework abandoned the logic of profit, you configure a board full of empty housing and discontinuity preposterous (to get an idea, take a map of the town and draw a line between Assergi2 and straw of Sassa2: scattered settlements miles of green, separated by several mountains). Today, the Aquila is a territory where the shape of the city - which usually provides for a household with a ring of movement - is inverted and distorted into a ring with a core housing often made from pieces of the original city congested by constant local traffic of exiles.
Who should ask "Who made this mess?" Can not be answered "the earthquake" because the mess landscape of the CASE project is only the first sign of permanent bradyseism policy that the earthquake and is quietly following imperterritamente. You can not even answer that was "Civil Defence", based on a naive view that simplifies the whole paradigm of the fence, where the invaders are just bad, and everyone is fighting for spot in the community outside interests private. The jumble of the CASE project is the product of a network of joint responsibilities between the state and local authorities, the outcome of a non-aggression pact based on mutual non-interference in matters of profit and patronage.
Aquila Since the council - at least in words - left and the national government's right, this undermines the clichés tangle of ideological simplification of the dynamics of conflict, unable to conceive in braided system of accountability that links the external powers with the local ones, the left with his right. Common sense is nourished by simplifications which leach from sediments of political folklore, and - not being able to draw a line and sharp line between "good" and "bad" - a responsibility not located either geographically or politically not easily digested in propaganda terms. Here, this underground movement of individual interests generated from the intersection between the politics of the profit of state and a local customers set up a feudal conception of urbanism as a mediation agreement between imprenditorili economic lobbies and city administration, has removed people from the places (deportations from the city that calls for be edited) and places for people (sullying the campaign with apartment complexes).
Force needs to decide how is the key strategy used by the shock economy disaster capitalism, and the idea that Bertolaso, or rather the post-colonial system of humanitarian aid, which he represents, has not thought time to heal L'Aquila in the best possible way for the city, as to impose a cure based more on its conveniences.
by weather communicator as he is our commissioner "to do" he said last week the public that if he sees a wounded man on the street prefers to load it immediately and if necessary, use the red, so hitting a 'good metaphor for what is the essence of his political strategy: the emergency as an excuse for abuse of authority. That's how this character can show off a "to do" with real and fictitious, which is based, rather than on work, on a "Show" only the part that agrees, hiding any obscene excesses of power in the mass media synecdoche. now on the bandwagon of Bertolaso \u200b\u200bthey suspect corruption, perhaps because the Commissioner has tried to do the cowboy with the Americans, and rimpiatto such an outrage has eroded his ability to travel in Machiavellian balance between legitimate and illegal on the road disaster, more than ever where the end justifies the means.
continued to dot the process of restoring the city agreed with these forms of corruption among several mess-ups will lead to increased degradation the place, so it is very important, essential, vital, always ask what is the ratio selling choices made, avoiding the need to take the bait to the issue brought by the emergency. The pretext of the need Aquila has been used by both national and local administration authorities, which - to borrow the metaphor of our own - has allowed Bertolaso, as well as to pass red lights, cut through the countryside. It must have been a mixture of naivete, confusion, incompetence, malfeasance. The powers are too, and difficult situations worse things. Maybe if they had not noticed, on the other also the king of France, before undergoing a revolution, it seems, was believed to be a good ruler, and that the people were happy for him and his work.
After disguised as "reconstruction" of a building housing the emergency that has used public money to enrich private companies by profit margins unthinkable in "normal" times, The Eagle is preparing now to reconstruction "true", which already promises to be in most cases in terms of running a huge patch of the AMI building, shattered, standing by a miracle (another "miracle" happened true L'Aquila). Bragging to talk sustainability and then betray them in the various facts, condominiums and public buildings damaged thousands on the edge of collapse are likely to be patched to the benefit of various companies and businesses that, instead of demolishing them, exploit them for years as a cash cow. Corruption just finished landscaping the incompatibility of the location of the CASE project, and includes a question of illegality with respect to the European Landscape Convention, the next to come will cover the patch of a city camouflaged by false claims of pseudo-sustainability, and new miracles, this time made from carbon fibers. The guidelines on reconstruction will be the still to try to give legality to a crime. Time will tell they say, but here will see who will die in condominiums patched during the next earthquake, including one, ten, fifty or three hundred years. This discourse of the patch can be only hinted at here, but it should be noted that the location of homes and condominiums of the patch are events that have in common the use of a disaster for the purposes of private profit at the expense of collective welfare.
In conclusion, I can not remember that, from some knowledge acquired from a bit 'on similar topics, I immediately - and that is for the first time - reported to the public, committees, media and local and national institutions as here, once again, carry-over. Needless to say, excluding some paternalistic pantomime, what I wrote was actually little attention from those who could decide to review the root location of the CASE project (ie changing the criterion of proximity to the "villages" in the vicinity of the city) . This project has seen over the summer at two different location which in some cases approached the buildings to the city, but, again, at least half of the sites are a mess landscape imposed by the rhetoric necessary, but very well could have been avoided.
clarify that I am not against the person of the mayor Cialente, which at the time I voted, but, while still hoping to be wrong, are saddened and embittered by a number of concerns around to his choices, which unfortunately also affect several other serious issues besides those mentioned. Regarding Bertolaso \u200b\u200bpersonally, to say the least, I can not estimate it: my thanks go to those who helped us, not to those who came to L'Aquila, first of all to help. I hope that the Aquila cease to be duped by the miracles of national prestige and local.
L'Aquila 15/2/2010
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