Da: “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno”, sabato 4 aprile 2009 – “La Gazzetta di Capitanata”, pag. IX
Borghi settecenteschi cambieranno così L’assessore Salatto: «Ci ispira il modello parigino dei passages. Riqualificazione attraverso la nascita di negozi e laboratori d’arte»
Quando Foggia City Council will again meet to tackle urban renewal programs, will be on the table a first hypothesis concerning the pilot districts eighteenth century. Michele Salatto, municipal city planning commissioner was unable to complete the main task he had taken with himself when, just two years ago, agreed to enter into Executive: to bring forward a hypothesis feasible to transform an area of \u200b\u200bsocial deprivation and physical in the heart of a new idea of \u200b\u200bliving and live the urban center. THE MISSION-
has hired Arturo Cucciolla, brainiac of the Politecnico di Bari, which has managed to redevelop the historic Old Bari, the home of Antonio Cassano, complete a feasibility study on so-called eighteenth-century neighborhoods Foggia. And Cucciolla has accepted the position pushed by the passion and professional involvement with the main signs of the history of Foggia settlements: the ancient streets of tratturi Segezia fascist architecture.
INPUT-Salatto gave precise addresses only on three aspects: to preserve and upgrade as much as possible what is, to create opportunities for new vitality in the center Foggia, maintain the volumes. The feasibility study on the new proposal is attached as eighteenth-century neighborhoods in the pilot program document for the urban regeneration that the City Council will be required to adopt, within the "integrated program of urban regeneration" provided for in Regional Law No 29 July 2008 21.
ANALYSIS-As with all feasibility studies, the analysis illustrates the problems and opportunities for intervention. The problems have been known for years: mainly concerned with the need to relocate the existing residences. The questionnaires are distributed widely last year, in collaboration with the Group's social action and animation, half of the residents said she was willing to relocate in other areas of the city. But the other half is linked to those sites, which would, however, habitable and livable. Inevitable leverage on the opportunities to solve problems: there is so conspicuous from the public purse holding a massive urban transformation so. "The opportunities, explains Michele Salatto-are, in my opinion, all that you can bring in that small shops and craftsmen who today are struggling with the momentous challenge of reinventing a friendly relationship, family and attractive for residents and no. The councilor-
Hence the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking the quarters of the eighteenth-century metaphor of the town of Foggia change, acting "behind the scenes," as he called the former archbishop of Foggia, Domenico D'Ambrosio, remittances with new program Urban Community. "These districts can become the heart of business and craft-emphasizes the assessor-architect, we can support the productive sectors in the city's historic quality competition with the giants of the so-called" non-places "urban, which are the shopping malls . The model we propose are the "passages" in Paris, where he is confined in the shops, artisans and art studios. "
The next steps are all to be built together with the city. The commissioner has already had a route with little trumpeted propaganda, but that it chose to enter the homes of residents. He did so with the guys from the GaAs, with a blog, with a series of public meetings held in the second division "Cathedral", "I wanted from residents who, until now, had always been kept on the sidelines of any proposed redevelopment," says Michele Salatto.
CONSULTATION - "But now you need to involve the productive categories and will be very important, along with the contractors, the intervention strategy cooperate Confcommercio, Confartigianato, Confesercenti, CNA: the life of the neighborhoods is not just houses."
The commissioner also explains why, this intervention is a new paradigm of a philosophy as to land at Foggia: "When, two weeks ago, I criticized the assumptions of Related to the so-called National Government House plan, I was referring to the fact that we must not, in response to the crisis, lose sight of that cities first need to find a new balance between home and services: we have established us as Europeans in the "Lisbon Strategy" that accompanies the choice of public governance at all levels. "So there is a thread that binds some of the main choices that Foggia is developing:" The tram-train project, concluded the City's planning department, is integrated with the regeneration the city center, the organic variant for the productive areas sorts out what it takes to get close to home, you have to set up areas in an environmentally and technologically equipped e quello che si deve collocare nelle grandi aree di sviluppo industriale».
Dal piano strategico “Capitanata 2020” al Piano urbanistico generale, un capo del filo sta in mano all’amministrazione comunale. L’altro serve a tessere la trama degli interessi sociali ed economici della città. Dallo studio di fattibilità si passerà a un concorso internazionale di progettazione sui nuovi quartieri settecenteschi. Quindi a stabilire i rapporti tra pubblico, privato economico e residenti, prima di far partire le procedure di evidenza pubblica per l’apertura del più grande cantiere affacciato sulla nuova Foggia.
