The 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila caused extensive damage to people and buildings, but also has sparked enormous conflicts in land use, contributing to urban sprawl and degradation of the landscape. Five years later, the historic centre is still empty. The physical identity of the territorial order is completely altered. The emergency shelter and the relocation of economic activities have followed an illogical urban sprawl, with irreversible alterations of landscape and agricultural lands. Now we need to restart a new life, involving a renovation of our approach, and rediscovering a collective ethic of responsibility to guide an effective capacity in order to restore the identity of places that had been damaged. We have, also to recover the meaning of physical morphology as well as the value of emotion because memory is also very fundamental. We should not forget the meaning of historic and social stratification.
il testo affronta la perdita dell'identità urbana e sociale della città di L'Aquila a seguito del terremoto del 6 aprile 2009 che ha provocato immani distruzioni. Il forzato abbandono del centro storico, un tempo cuore pulsante di animazione culturale, sociale ed economica, assieme alla distruzione del paesaggio, ulteriormente devastato dalle opere della cosiddetta ricostruzione, hanno ingenerato danni irrerparabili anche nella comunità e non solo negli spazi fisici. Il testo propone una riflessione sul significato e il vissuto degli spazi pubblici per ritrovare la capacità di condividere una nuova visione sul futuro della città.
Territorial vision in post-quake L'Aquila. Creating community and identity / Mattogno, Claudia. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 230-235.
Territorial vision in post-quake L'Aquila. Creating community and identity
MATTOGNO, Claudia
2014
Abstract
The 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila caused extensive damage to people and buildings, but also has sparked enormous conflicts in land use, contributing to urban sprawl and degradation of the landscape. Five years later, the historic centre is still empty. The physical identity of the territorial order is completely altered. The emergency shelter and the relocation of economic activities have followed an illogical urban sprawl, with irreversible alterations of landscape and agricultural lands. Now we need to restart a new life, involving a renovation of our approach, and rediscovering a collective ethic of responsibility to guide an effective capacity in order to restore the identity of places that had been damaged. We have, also to recover the meaning of physical morphology as well as the value of emotion because memory is also very fundamental. We should not forget the meaning of historic and social stratification.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.