di Beniamino Cordova* -
(pubblicata su www.strill.it il 25 giugno 09)
Bello il titolo, interessante il tema. Dopo un mese, tra qualche giorno, volgerà al termine la mia esperienza di studio e ricerca negli States.
Ebbene si, Ricerca, proprio quella. In una realtà come quella reggina, da poco diventata (solo burocraticamente) Città Metropolitana ad una realtà consolidata come quella di Boston, nello Stato del Massachusetts, regione del New England, USA.
Perché fare Ricerca scientifica in America e perché proprio Boston? Presto said.
scientific research in these latitudes, I happily noted, that plays a completely different value than what we have, unfortunately, is assigned. Attending a PhD (Philosophiae Doctor), the equivalent of our Ph.D., is to immerse yourself completely and daily (also attending the beautiful, well equipped and located in places most certain, University College, similar in concept but not in the form to the student's home, designed by us) in the study and innovations in the discipline.
And then, let me say, there is also a bit of pride in saying "I'm Attending a PhD in Italy" and see the faces of the people to the libraries at MIT or Harvard University (two of the most important universities of the world), smile and open doors, or cashiers in bookstores, happy to be able bodied to apply discounts, or even almost happy face and permissive of irreproachable American police at the border.
I dare not think, the hilarity that would result in the same sentence spoken in Italy.
If we add that we also attended a PhD in Urban Planning in Reggio Calabria come even invitations to dinner. Yes, no joke.
Doctorate in Urban Planning until a few years ago, and it has been for many years, affiliated with Northeastern University in Boston and still nourishes the relevant overseas account.
Research in Boston. When it comes to scientifically metropolitan areas, it can not be separated from that of Boston.
The American city in the world goes to school in this area and a detailed understanding of the policies they implemented from birth to now play a determining role in a context such as the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria.
is essential to understand how participation of citizens or the city's relationship with the smaller towns that revolve every day to work, services and other things around it.
Take advantage of their transport metropolitan, not study them only in books, can help to clearly define some concepts. To understand, for example, Reggio Metropolitan City, will have to start a serious policy of transport planning, starting from the resources in place, can not ignore the emergence of a single (I say only) Metropolitan Transport Company, which means to put under the roof, metro area, Metro Bus and the Sea, in the service areas that revolve around the city: just so you can aim for an efficient modality.
also designed as a false problem to think right now the municipalities wishing to be part of the Metropolitan Area Reggio. The Metropolitan Transportation System is not concerned with this, the only role it plays is to ensure an adequate service to customer requests.
From where comes the question of daily transport home - work - services?
There is a specific standard, you often use the criterion of the average distance of 100 km from the main center (is data that is used as a general criterion), to be done by one means or by using more modes (intermodality) of Metropolitan Transportation System.
In a serious and efficient, it hardly seems problematic even reach the city from considerable distances.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), namely the Transport Company of the Metropolitan Area of \u200b\u200bBoston includes buses, trains (including long distance), Subway, Tram (on the outskirts traveling on the surface but inside the city center and then becomes an underground station at all effects), Special Bus for connecting city airport (also underground, real bus inside a tunnel are identical to those of the metro, but clearly no simple binary asphalt) and then hydrofoil from Waterfront reach Logan Airport and other locations in the metropolitan area, offering an additional service to commuters, all of these with a single (it is said only) ticket.
this fundamental point: "additional service for commuters" or "alternative to a system already well established and efficient", this practice appears to be the connecting service to Boston by sea.
And 'passing the basic idea, this is especially true for Reggio Metropolitan City, which is not always important to find and only the fastest or cheapest way to get a place, especially the important thing is to find alternatives that are not quantifiable in monetary terms but improve the quality of life. It is not important (this applies to the future, we hope, Metropolitan Transportation System), for esempio, trovare il modo più veloce per arrivare a Reggio da una qualsiasi zona della propria Area Metropolitana ma bensì è importante sapere di poterci arrivare in svariati modi. Per tale motivo vale la pena insistere sulla mia idea (pubblicata più volte anche da questa testata online) della Metropolitana del Mare che collega i porti dell’Area Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria. Sarebbe una grande conquista poter partire dal porto di Gioia Tauro, (o di Reggio, di Palmi, di Saline, di Bagnara, di Scilla, di Villa San Giovanni o quelli che saranno, di Pellaro, di Catona) ed arrivare in aeroporto direttamente con un Ferry Boat o utilizzarli quotidianamente come servizi ai pendolari.
Si impiega più tempo rispetto ad una travel on the highway? Bah, I do not think, considering the conditions of the Salerno - Reggio. Even so?
We realize that this will improve the quality of life, at no cost, using existing resources? (The ports are there, waiting for someone to remember them).
must know the reality overseas to understand that our proposal in the same context has had excellent results?
Maybe in Boston have figured out that the resource landscape, especially the urban one, you can use from a different perspective as the sea, not just watch the city from the city but look at the city from the sea, and the role played by the landscape becomes of primary importance.
Unwittingly it the last State Examinations for planners, addressed the issue of the Landscape: the landscape and environment - the area: three approaches, a reality.
E 'clear, a single reality.
These disciplines are tied together hand in glove in the light of the new university reform that fits inside the studio of the land and the environment (urban) just the landscape, and the apparent link between the discipline is also a consecration by central government.
The city of Messina in this paper was not involved. The solid and lasting relationship, especially transport, between Messina and Reggio, will, of course you will, to consecrate the Metropolis of the Strait, but for now Reggio should aim to make better use of existing resources, as its own, improve, why think of burning or stages of planning since now, on their side of Calabria, new infrastructure seems somewhat random and totally useless the rest will follow.
In the case of Boston, streamlining transport, also from the physical point of view, for example the construction of the Big Dig, a highway tunnel that passes under the city, made it possible to plan a system of high quality public spaces, the Greenwai Kennedy, who plays mainly to cement, bonding between the areas previously separated by bulky artery in this area.
But that's another story that soon we will, of course trattreremo.
from the metropolitan Boston is all up to you online.
* PhD student in planning
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