word yet of the Mediterranean to the doctoral students, and their reflective capacities: after the first exit, continue with Benjamin Cordova,
doctoral research at the Department of Planning SAT, graduated "cum laude" in Urban Planning and Environmental
. The young researcher is responsible for metropolitan planning, from transportation to public spaces to
appropriate forms of participation, and is committed to promoting a "Reggio model" for building the Metropolitan City. The correlations thesis
is overseeing the investigation of transport planning in urban centers. Benjamin Cordova
performs scientific research with special attention to metropolitan areas known directly: Boston (USA), Barcelona (Spain), Copenhagen - Malmö
(Danimarca - Svezia). (Enrico Costa)
di Beniamino Cordova
(pubblicata su www.newz.it il 16.07.09)
Attribuire la definizione di “Città Metropolitana” ad un’area urbana significa riconoscerle indubbiamente una specificità. La Città
Metropolitana dovrebbe offrire maggiori possibilità rispetto alla strumentazione ed alle risorse a disposizione delle Province e dei Comuni,
non può essere considerata solamente uno strato intermedio o uno strumento di legame tra gli Enti Comunali e la Regione ma un livello di
governo in cui confluiscono, con le loro specificità, i contributi decisionali dei Comuni dell’Area to build in a unified way
development processes.
The Metropolitan Area Urban Plan will need not simply be an indication of a higher-level
Urban Plan but will have a strategic location that will enhance and local particularities.
Reggio Metropolitan City, so. The public was informed, and Reggio day after day
have become aware of this new growth opportunities for the community and the city. For the city and the surrounding area.
is now a desire to see tangible change Reggio (in mentality), improve (in Services), change (in Form) modernize
(in structure). A desire that is preordained.
It is the first step (the mentality) to which you have to start "Thinking Metropolitano", in order to "Acting Metropolitan".
Reggio must become leaders of their own metropolitan area and take the helm of the development process of a vast territory. To do this he needs
raise awareness, not just those who daily reggini are "bombarded" by the news
but especially those who are in town for work, study, and to use the services (the second piece, the Services): Users of the City; to them (just
them) must make it clear that the establishment of "Reggio Metropolitan City" can only bring benefits, transport, services in general, even at the cost of
contribute economically through taxes anyway reinvested locally (because "Underground City")
in the spirit of fiscal federalism: a small price for a great value.
is known that the Metropolitan City in any context determines an increase in the mobility of people, so it takes as a fundamental priority objective
the reorganization of the relational system.
With better organization of transport will have a better connection of the main center with the areas that revolve around it, and then we will see
also, probably, to a mutation in the form of the city that the city will no longer be understood according to the old borders
necessarily but we will face a City wide, polycentric, in accordance with the identity and positive (
third piece, mutation of the form).
In my other contributions on this theme, I proposed to set up right now "The Metropolitan Transportation System" which stresses
reports, notes, Reggio with the areas that orbit the city from a careful organization of existing resources
(city rail, bus), although not fully utilized, and future (hopefully in the birth of the "Underground
of the Sea", an idea that I carry on for three years, as a link between the ports of the Metropolitan Area of \u200b\u200bReggio Calabria). This is the first step
is basically useless to think of doing otherwise.
is clear that the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bReggio, today must not give priority to the design of new infrastructure but
improve existing ones, starting from the 106 and continuing with the arteries, a comb, from the coast, they climb to the areas internal.
A metropolitan area, fully urbanized maybe (hopefully the second floor and does not address illegally) need roads
equipped and planned specifically to carry out this task (fourth piece, modernize facilities).
That said, established the Landmarks, we must be able to build the "Model Reggio", ie a model of development of our Metro Area
starting from the knowledge of other similar situations around the world, evaluate, examine, learn about the benefits of
some choices and negativity of others and try to get the better it is for this reason, a graduate student about a year and a half, I chose to
live and work in scientific research for a month in Boston (USA), for three months in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), having a
prior knowledge of reality as the Metropolitan Area "transnational" in Copenhagen - Malmö (Denmark - Sweden). Metropolitan areas
very different, but three metropolitan areas consolidated specimens, living, they have in common with each other,
and Reggio Calabria, the fact of being located on the sea. Three reality that, without any kind of attitude "provincial", we would like to see
spread in our country, obviously maintaining, enhancing and developing, our specificity. Cultural and environmental.
From these experiences it draws a lot.
living them with intensity and enthusiasm they deserve, and there Another way for a young researcher, it is appreciated and idealizes the
transport system in Boston, diverse, dynamic and efficient. In this regard it is useful to pick up another of my contribution
(published June 25, 2009 by Strill.it.) A description of the transport system of the American city: "The transport system
includes buses, trains - even long-distance -, Subway, Tram - travels to the surface on the outskirts but within the urban center
becomes underground and then a subway to all intents and purposes - special bus for connecting city / airport - even those
underground, true to bus' Internal identical to those underground galleries, without a clear but simple binary
asphalt - and finally reach the Waterfront hydrofoil from Logan Airport and other locations in the Metropolitan Area, offering a further
service to commuters, all of these with a single ticket). Copenhagen
The case presents an extraordinary interest, a node is matched only by a few other urban modernity to
of programs, including the European cities of medium size.
Copenhagen is a city of 600,000 inhabitants in the urban municipalities and about 1,300,000 in the metropolitan area (
a context almost identical to that of Boston).
The development of the Danish city in the first place, and thereafter amalgamation with the Swedish Malmö was built on the base, also
here, a massive reorganization of transport.
High speed, medium-distance trains, local trains, metro new generation (edge, using the method of
"driving without a driver," thus avoiding any possible human error), make Copenhagen an example of efficiency in the world . A
this capacity should be added that there was a real culture of cycling mobility, a significant wave cycle network, which enabled the city to significantly reduce
(compared to other European capitals) emissions of pollutants CO2 emissions from traffic.
Cycling is an important element of the city's identity, as demonstrated by continued investment in cycle lanes, parking lanes
confidential security measures.
The link with Malmö in Sweden (another city, another region, another nation, even) is physically visible to the famous bridge which is part of the Sound
Øresund Fixed Link, 16 km of tunnel / Embankment / Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden, for use in cars and trains
(a "system" that are inspired by native speakers when they think the bridge over the Strait of Messina).
The bridge is the only apparent link, what the eye naked can see, the true strength of the metropolitan area is the understanding
in development policies, from transport organization based on common objectives (otherwise we would speak of
metro area).
If two different States, and totally independent, like Denmark and Sweden have managed to find ways to build metro area
why we could not succeed in building our Metropolis Strait Reggio-Messina, not sovereign states but regions
Italian an ordinary statute and a special statute.
Moving to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe Catalan capital is possible to admire the enthusiasm of the citizens in attendance at
development decisions from their city, also in the contexts examined people positively evaluate interventions aimed at the creation of public spaces
high quality.
undoubtedly the case of Kennedy Greenway in Boston, is one that will leave you breathless. Plan and design a system of public spaces
, speaking with a rationalization of transport. Strange, but true.
The creation of the highway tunnel, the famous Big Dig, the most challenging public works project ever undertaken in the U.S., has reorganized
all roads of Boston and its metropolitan area.
The entire area under which flows the traffic was destined for a system complex of public spaces, the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
The construction of this greenway is an achievement of historic architectural and urban planning. It is the goal of killing the existing
Freeway overpass, the main highway used by urban traffic for about 40 years, through that, "undercurrent"
the center of the metropolis.
It took seventeen years (and we say this just to make it clear that the "Underground City" is a reality that materializes
waving a magic wand, we want a sort of "urban miracle," free and immediate) to design and
program a circuito che abbraccia Denway Square, Chinatown, l’area intorno alla North Station e la parte centrale del Downtown
Corridor, comunemente chiamato Wharf District, a due passi dalle acque atlantiche della grande Baia di Boston. Lo scopo è stato quello di
“produrre” spazi a sostegno d’usi complementari, come quello commerciale, per attivare il traffico urbano del circondario e fornire tecniche
per un design urbano nuovo.
Le diverse sezioni che compongono la Rose Kennedy Greenway offrono spazi aperti verdi e di transito per i pedoni, prati ed aiuole, fontane
e svolgono quindi la funzione di collante, di amalgama, di zone cuscinetto, tra le aree precedentemente separate dalla preesistente
ingombrante arteria in superficie.
Queste sono le realtà che fanno scuola.
A Reggio Città Metropolitana queste notizie possono servire? Si può far tesoro delle esperienze altrui? Forse sì, e come?
Una razionalizzazione dei trasporti metropolitani di Reggio, con la nascita della Metropolitana del Mare e l’implementazione della
Metropolitana di superficie, implica l’utilizzo di nuove forme di spazio urbano, il Waterfront come nel caso di Boston o addirittura le
spiagge, come nel caso di Barcellona.
Attrezziamoci quindi pianificando lo sviluppo di questi spazi metropolitani secondo linee condivise, d’intesa con le amministrazioni locali.
Per quanto mi riguarda, nella mia ricerca, ho già iniziato di buona lena.
Da cittadino e da pianificatore territoriale intendo dire la mia.
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