some points DELLA RICERCA SULLA CITTÀ METROPOLITANA DI REGGIO CALABRIA
di Beniamino Cordova
Dottorando di Ricerca in Pianificazione Territoriale.
(pubblicato su strill.it il 13/09/2010)
Si è detto tanto in questo anno, ma non si è detto tutto.
Il tema è diventato addirittura l’asse portante per la formazione dei futuri urbanisti nel Corso di Laurea in “Urbanistica” della “Mediterranea”.
In uno dei tanti convegni al quale sono stato invitato come relatore ed in tutti i contributi sull’argomento che ho pubblicato (molti anche in questa testata online e tutti comunque inseriti all’interno del mio blog http://beniaminocordova.blogspot.com/) I put a question to the lawyers to whom no one has responded.
"The laws that deal with the metropolitan areas are highly detailed and incisive but none of this helps solve the real problem that afflicts all Italian metropolitan areas (including our own): what are the criteria for the size of the area?
At this point, planners enter the field and the scientific literature reference says: "One of the criteria that may suggest an initial size of the area are the main commuter flows toward the center, that the attraction towards the main centers are engaged in smaller communities that revolve around them. "
In recent months were the endless questions of occurred in local government meetings and conferences on the subject.
When the mayors of the municipalities located in the province of Reggio but in an extremely far from the main town, say they are not part of the metropolitan city of Reggio because they have no connection with the mother-city (ie Reggio) are partly right and partly wrong. Indeed
municipalities "too far" from the capital, in our case, have no connection with the main center but this does not allow him to consider himself out from the underground of Reggio Calabria.
in Europe and then also in Italy there are Polycentric metropolitan areas, it's normal: Florence - Prato – Pistoia; non esiste infatti l’Area Metropolitana di Firenze se non unita alle altre due città, agli altri due poli. Quindi ci sono dei Comuni che gravitano attorno a Firenze, altri che gravitano attorno a Prato ed altri ancora che gravitano attorno a Pistoia.
La nostra Area Metropolitana, dai dati in mio possesso, dalle ricerche che sto portando avanti all’interno del Dottorato di Ricerca in Pianificazione Territoriale e come correlatore di una innovativa tesi contestualizzata al territorio metropolitano, è divisa in tre poli: la Locride, la Piana ed appunto Reggio.
E nella Giunta di Locri il Sindaco ha addirittura assegnato una delega assessoriale alla “Città Metropolitana”.
Quando, sette months ago, I argued for the first time in a public meeting of the Metropolitan Area of \u200b\u200bthe polycentricity Reggio was mistrust between the technicians and local administrators, the idea is now happily become public domain.
The mayors of the above, when they say they are unaffiliated with Reggio are right, but when they say they have no relations with the Metropolitan Area are wrong, because the commuters are aware of the gravity flow of a few centers around the pole Locride , or the Plain of Reggio, and around one of the three poles of the Metropolitan Area of \u200b\u200bReggio Calabria.
From the population census from 1951 to date shows the migration of people from places inside to areas of the coast or to major centers of the Plain, focusing mainly around the three poles. This choice is mainly due to the extra-functions of influence (centers of higher education, culture, media agencies, promotion and distribution, intermodal hubs) cluster attractors.
Another reason to migrate to towns with better equipped and better conditions of access appears to be the need to address the permanent absence of adequate road infrastructure.
this fundamental point just mentioned: the metropolitan areas of the world have experienced a process of dis-urbanization, namely the abandonment of the main center to areas further away, a process when there is a regular efficient transport system that is not difficult to exercise the practice of commuting.
difficult to implement in our context the same reasoning, why we live today is a process of urbanization of the main cities, overcrowded enormously.
But that's not all: the population projection to 2030 shows the disappearance of dozens of historic towns and mountain towns, all in favor of the three poles of the Metropolitan Area which are the only areas that will increase the number of residents.
is clear that in future transportation planning on a metropolitan scale should be taken into account demographic trends and structural our territories, creating one of the only axis of unity within the metropolitan area (see, for example, the Metro del Mare, which I proposed some years ago and that was the title of my monograph), but that the binding of the three models of transportation planning that will arise in context to the three poles to make them autonomous, locally and extralocale.
In planning a strategy to scale our metro area we can not ignore the breath of the new European and Mediterranean Institute.
We know that a metropolitan city in Europe is confronted with other metropolitan cities - "to network" to use a modern term - within the Metrex Network (The Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas (Metrex) was founded in Glasgow in 1996, the primary purpose of this network is an exchange of experiences, views on regional and spatial planning, but also to evaluate the management problems and policies) which has as its objective the creation of shared strategies especially in urban development between the sister cities.
On the Mediterranean, Reggio has coordinated the first meeting on the Cities of the Mediterranean which was held in October 2009.
The document that came out said that cooperation and partnership will be based among other things also on infrastructure, transport and especially on a shared approach to the strategies and policies for urban development.
The circle is closed!
Being a metropolitan city, Reggio will assume the function of the glue between urban development policies of the European nature and urban development policies that will arise from this cooperation between the cities of the Mediterranean.
The research I'm doing, and will end in the coming months, starting at this point, but not only them, to try to give answers to the issue that most other Reggio torments and scholars for over a year dealing with the subject.
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