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Wednesday 16 October 2019
Monday 22 July 2019
Demagogy, ideology, brainwashing
“The Truth coming out of the well”
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.
THE TRUTH, THE LIE, AND THE WELL.
According to a 19th century
legend, the Truth and the Lie meet one day. The Lie says to the Truth:
“It’s a marvellous day today”! The Truth looks up to the skies and
sighs, for the day was really beautiful. They spend a lot of time
together, ultimately arriving beside a well. The Lie tells the Truth:
“The water is very nice, let’s take a bath together!” The Truth, once
again suspicious, tests the water and discovers that it indeed is very
nice. They undress and start bathing. Suddenly, the Lie comes out of the
water, puts on the clothes of the Truth and runs away. The furious
Truth comes out of the well and runs everywhere to find the Lie and to
get her clothes back. The World, seeing the Truth naked, turns its gaze
away, with contempt and rage.
The poor Truth returns to the well
and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the Lie
travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of
society, because, the World, in any case, harbors no wish at all to meet
the naked Truths.
Saturday 13 July 2019
L’uovo o la gallina?
Il noto paradosso del “è nato prima l’uovo o la gallina?” in una scienza sociale come l'urbanistica si può trasformare in: è la struttura e architettura urbana che “fa” i suoi cittadini, o è la cittadinanza che fa sì che una città si profili e sviluppi secondo le caratteristiche dei sui abitanti?
video di Peter Calthorpe su argomenti contigui
Friday 12 July 2019
Planejamento urbano ideológico: zoning e arranha-céus
No Dezembro 2018 em Curitiba, no fim duma conversa com o Jaime Lerner, ele perguntou-me sobre a Itália. Respondi que aquele que antigamente era conhecido como o “Bel Paese”, hoje é terra pobre e sem futuro, de onde as pessoas com estudos e capacidades fogem. E que é país onde tudo roda à volta da demagogia e ideologia.
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Mobilidade elétrica? Depende de qual...
No site do Ministério da Saúde do Brasil li o seguinte:
A poluição dos meios de transporte a combustão (de motos a caminhões) tem um papel importante.
Sunday 30 June 2019
Jobless Growth: where has Aaron Bastani been in the last 25 years?
Twenty-three years ago,
in June 1996, "Il Castello Infranto" was successfully presented to the
Italian press and the main Italian economic stakeholders, a book I wrote
with Stefano Palumbo and K. Gotnich, under the supervision of Domenico De Masi and the production of Giancarlo Di Paola. The book, published by Editricesafra, presents the results of a long and complex investigation about the reorganization of Volkswagen AG in Germany and the socio-economic impact it had on the city of Wolfsburg, the company's headquarters.
Monday 13 April 2015
Friday 6 February 2015
Sobre la planificación integrada
Plantear una propuesta de singlo proyecto y no un proceso de planificación de una ciudad, un proyecto completamente desconectado de una estrategia territorial y que no piense a las sinergias con los otros potenciales proyectos, no lleva a nada positivo, por lo menos en términos territoriales amplios, como en el caso de un área metropolitana. Este porque lo que es importante en un plan no son los diferentes proyectos, sino la estrategia de fondo que permita desarrollar los varios proyectos, de manera que cada proyecto sea funcional a los otros, y principalmente cada proyecto sea “pivote” de un plan único. Dicho de forma diferente, un plan no debe ser la sumatoria de aquellas diferentes ideas o necesidades locales que se suman en un proyecto, sino una respuesta estratégica integrada, que permita el desarrollo sustentable de una ciudad, también en una perspectiva de innovación y competitividad. Porque los varios proyectos no pueden ser nada más que “órganos” y “extremidades” de un único animal. Aquel animal llamado ciudad.
Wednesday 17 December 2014
That thin green line...
While Adolf Hitler was democratically
elected in Germany, in Athens Le Corbusier led the IV “Congrès
International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)” embracing his ideas. They
both had a clear and very structured “vision” for a new engineered
society... and a better world, at least according to their perspective,
of course. It was 1933.
At a later stage Hitler created concentration camps made of barracks far away from cities, for secluding there non Aryan people, while Le Corbusier and his followers projected and built concentration camps made of concrete, where stuffing and isolating from the rest of the population the least fortunate inhabitants of cities. There are huge differences between the two ill minded “projects”, being the first brutal and the second more sophisticated, but they were somehow united by the goal of keeping “pariah” far away from “normal people’s” eyes: in the first case people belonging to a different “race”, in the second people belonging to the lowest social classes. They were all “removed” from cities' living cores.
Coherently, the engineered and absolutistic vision of life (for a functionalist world) was taking form. No matter how, but it was. And, even if at different levels, they both were crimes against humanity.
At a later stage Hitler created concentration camps made of barracks far away from cities, for secluding there non Aryan people, while Le Corbusier and his followers projected and built concentration camps made of concrete, where stuffing and isolating from the rest of the population the least fortunate inhabitants of cities. There are huge differences between the two ill minded “projects”, being the first brutal and the second more sophisticated, but they were somehow united by the goal of keeping “pariah” far away from “normal people’s” eyes: in the first case people belonging to a different “race”, in the second people belonging to the lowest social classes. They were all “removed” from cities' living cores.
Coherently, the engineered and absolutistic vision of life (for a functionalist world) was taking form. No matter how, but it was. And, even if at different levels, they both were crimes against humanity.
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