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Abstract:
the CASE project for the earthquake victims Aquila is increasingly more focused as a transaction based on the stylistic features of shock economy, it represents a solution finalized before the help of the earthquake victims, to the benefit of corporations affiliated with the government, not takes into account the cultural diversity of habitats in which you want to go down, and that will not suffice to remove all the displaced people from tent city. It seems necessary to revise part of this project and ready availability of modern containers in order to empower displaced people from the yoke of the tents.
The cultural diversity of the habitat of the eagle are seen in the preponderance of differentiation between urban places and rural places. To clarify the speech that proposed here, this coexistence can be represented by describing our community as a territory, so to speak, "two colors": zone "green" (the rural context) flank a central "blue" (The city and its extension device, which roughly form a line next auction Aterno river, between two mountain ramparts that surround the valley, fading between the Courts and Bazzano). Often it is not clear dividing lines, and there are places where there is a more or less contrastive mixture of these elements (eg the area between Bazzano and pagans, in which, a few kilometers from the city, the industrial core occupies a territory where there is still a significant agricultural vocation, or to Sassa, the West limit of urban expansion), sometimes the connotation of rural areas is more clear (or as Roio Piano Camarda). The point, as we are concerned, however, is that these circumstances can not be edited in any way from any land-use planning project which envisages the need to preserve the quality of life index ignore these issues is contrary to the guidelines voted solely to the pursuit of economic interests at the expense of the value of the quality of life.
As I wrote it as soon as details were revealed [1] , the main problem of the CASE project - the Berlusconi's government, with the backing of Bertolaso pointed to the Civil Defence and subsequently fell on the town of L'Aquila - is the following: the type of dwelling that, in the form of the supply of aid, the State seeks to impose on citizenship, in too many cases does not take into account the difference in cultural habitats in our town. This occurs precisely along a continuum urban / rural characterized by a series of threshold values: discontinuity of identity in which countries they experience the collective self in terms of rurality pronounced, and the city shows, of course, a vocation urban identity . In simple words: here as elsewhere, the city is a city and country is country. This means variety, preserve diversity is a value because it is the antidote against isotropy, a place that offers a variety harmonious interior is a place where you can choose, and choice is a prerequisite for freedom.
therefore can not pass on the sly that the CASE project will - in many of the twenty sites chosen for allocation - a condominium type housing in rural environments, in places where, for years, we found that is so important that in small towns are the essence of the place that cares to landscape require a type suitable for the tiles of the roofs. National Park, where even the tiles should be of a certain type, you sow condominiums, town houses. It is not a problem of essence but of positioning, but not in shape housing allocation, but no element of relationship is like putting a sofa in a dishwasher in the kitchen or living room. It is a choice, in many of the sites identified in twenty in the town, completely senseless. The burden of maintaining the site - certainly a difficult task after the tragedy that struck us - is the burden of preserving the quality of life, the need for disaster brought by the limited field of choices, but can not become a pretext for justify any choice.
should be noted that the choice that is currently pursuing - that of a new town to connote disintegrated within urban contexts often rural, 2) guidance in the design - is the result of a plebiscite of local opposition to the government's proposal to build a new town unitary and homogeneous, the schematic model 1). What has not been pursued is instead a strategy allocative - probably the most rational - based on criteria of proximity and architectural differentiation between urban and rural construction, from the schematic drawing 3). In many suspect that, rather than the quality of life, has chosen to defend the economic prestige of the land contiguous to the urban periphery, rather than the value of identity protection thought has been given to the interests of local lobbies. The state has imposed a type of dwelling unit to the City and the City has received by way of the ability to protect some land expropriations from pickpocketing? So there are rumors, and would not be the first time in Italy occur such degrees of priority in public decisions. Local authorities now say paternalistic "we know that is a shame, but we have imposed, the better so you could not do." Are we sure?
Maybe it's too late to rethink this decision in depth - sensationalism in the early days of emergency - was dished up to our city thanks to the fast that you need the shock to the economy to be successful places. Maybe not, there is still room for the will, not lack groped would be guilty, especially in the idea that one could not reject the whole project, but to propose, for some sites, a review of the criteria for allocation of these buildings. In the more "green" homes where they threaten to rape the character of the place - and at the same time to force the inhabitants of the city to rural deportation - there is an urgent need to seek a reconsideration, a request for negotiation in the possibility of review the locations where more artifacts if there is an inadequacy of urban and rural situations more deeply. Similarly, for the least "green", one might ask the state architectural design of these condominiums to be more suited to the peculiarities of the places detached from the boundary of the urban periphery.
This now aware that a substantial proportion of the population (those living in buildings with structural unfitness) must wait many years before returning home: the approximately 13,000 beds under the CASE project is likely to be the responsibility them, these houses probably some are a necessity, but should be better positioned and designed in the knowledge that they will not be far from sufficient to meet all requests. Therefore, simultaneously, for others perhaps 20-30000 displaced will be able to benefit from shorter time to return (from a few months to a year or two?) Would be appropriate to think seriously and swiftly, using containers. The government has used probably a widespread bias in terms of collective national imagination: the containers are unlivable. Certainly those of the Irpinia earthquake thirty years ago - to which we refer implicitly to evoke fear, distress, suffering - it was, those of the Marche and Umbria earthquake seems to have been so bad. While today containers (called "temporary housing units"), the good ones, seem to be quite another thing, excellent isolation climate, capable of an acceptable comfort for long periods certainly infinitely better than the tents. But probably the containers - giving more autonomy to the people - would be less appropriate to order the confiscation of the population and pouring out to the wounded city acres and acres of concrete, almost exclusively contracted to outside firms.
Aid in tents - sincere, honest and undeniably a large part of the Civil Protection system - you (con) fused with hints of coup local outstretched hand to give camouflages the hand that takes. Here the population is kept numb by necessity, is deprived of the power of choice, any political blackmail to tame the masses of displaced people are forced into the deception of promises that underlie most likely strategies geared to the pursuit of economic profit that the objective of 'aid for earthquake victims.
The tent often reveal themselves as the "world affairs", the "non-places" of concentration where people are made dependent on a support system that excludes the city from the economic reproduction of the social fabric: if we were given the containers would have continued to shop in places as always, to maintain a certain autonomy, so we ended up hostage of the aid system. With the passing of the day "there we put in containers, we give directly the case" begins to reveal the deception in doubt, in terms of a "keep you in a tent so we can weaken, maintain a centralized system of maintenance costs € 3 million a day, pouring out tons of cement that will benefit and work to businesses affiliated with us. "
's ambivalence and looting of relief, that's the way to practice strategies shock economy: the great disasters are events that disintegrate the social fabric of the places we hit, it is for capitalism to conquer a wonderful opportunity.
In earthquakes, as in war there are those who count deaths and damage, and program opportunities, large investments in such situations may be lodged and served up easily because - simply - the need to oppress our choice, and the help it can become a profit strategy.
L’Aquila, 18-6-2009
Antonello Ciccozzi
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