La banlieue est la ville

Abstract

The article discusses the theme of the suburbs from the point of view of the architect. This perspective is considered important since the work of the architect and town planner has a significant impact on the welfare of the citizens as the spaces designed and then made, have the responsibility to influence the social behavior of people. This sense of responsibility has characterized the working group G124, coordinated by the architect Renzo Piano in the role of Senator for life from 2013, who has worked with public awareness and critical consciousness on the theme of the peripheries. In particular, it describes the work carried out in the district of Librino, periphery complex of the city of Catania. The plan area of Librino was designed by the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange which had imagined a beautiful and efficient city. Unfortunately this utopia is then transformed into a bitter reality in which live more than 70,000 people without places of aggregation and with poor services. The work done in the district has been intense and in synergy with different professional figures. At the time of the initial, investigation was followed by a listening phase from which is derived a process of involvement that ended with the delivery of the result. It is the treaty of a mending of urban parts of the district and mending social between citizens and the administration. The article concludes with a defense of beauty which is an instrument for a regeneration of the places especially public.

Keywords

• role of the architect
• center
• suburb
• G124
• mending
• beauty