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".. i want then revolved around a handful of shops, holes a few meters, however, able to fire the imagination. In small shops you find everything from flour to conceal the paper to make the crib, the confetti for the carnival. (...) "* Today
precisely here lies the problem. When it comes to square Balerna the most satisfying in an ironic way, "Piazza? Which square? "For years Balerna we find the main road that splits the stretch of land called" Piazza A. Tarchini, "and today that part of starda has about 15,000 steps a day's drive. This is because, when it was decided that the main road were to move from the center of the country was convinced that this would be beneficial, more wealth and more chances. These were the years of economic boom, desires that are stretched, the daydreams.
"(...) Then the paths of desire have become highways. We are persuaded that happiness consists in having more "things": a big lie that we all drank, with the results that we have under our eyes. "
* Today, people do not meet more people pass, passes, but does not live the square. The few spots that the road grants are used, by force of logic, to stand. Even bars on the margins of the square can not exploit it too much, should remain pour on themselves, even in the summer, the outdoor table is a luxury and not a very healthy, given the constant frequency with which the exhaust gases the cars go to "enrich" the environment. Today, even a funeral celebrated in the situation causes difficulties Collegiate road.
Rethinking the square?
is only five years ago, the dry NO received a draft of the redevelopment of the town square, and yet someone has the courage to talk about? Yes, because it is deemed necessary. Maybe then the new dreams and new desires for a more livable place, but above the cost of those dreams, had given birth to many doubts and concerns that influenced the popular vote. People who, as long as undisputed sovereign, sometimes forget that there is a better investment than investing in their quality of life. Now the same
County seems to want to play around the grounds at the main road, to put it under the new requirements of traffic safety. What better time to resume talking about? The risk is to find a better way, to all rules and regulations, perhaps with some embellishment "technical", but that in itself will not change the quality of life Balerna and its center, with an investment of some CHF mlione . There is good?
We need to return to appropriate the dreams, desires, and do not be afraid of them. Now that the economic crisis tells us that there is no money, we can not do anything, you have to "tighten their belts", we should begin to think and plan for the future, what we want, what we would like to get into the future with clear ideas. We like the place alive, and that the meetings of the stories intertwine, one of the events of life. A village center that the various sports and cultural associations can be exploited, where a seller may have to stay in the market or that could become an extension to the outside of the various art exhibitions held at the Sala del Torchio. These are just ideas, ideas that come to mind so out of hand, however, little things that today are impossible.
Examples of the redevelopment at our latitude are clearly visible to all. Independence Square in Chiasso is back to being alive, meeting place and meeting, public events and social events. Square to the Valley in Mendrisio is now the new Agora of the Magnificent village where the events follow each other towns. Speaking of Mendrisio
comes to my mind a few kilometers from our place there's an Academy of Architecture of the most renowned in Europe, with hundreds of young architects with the head already in the city of the future. Why not involve them, engage them, somehow "exploiting" their wits to gather new ideas, ideas, desires that can really help us to give back to Balerna a center, a square worthy of the name. The same in our schools, which have so far reconstructed Balerna the past, not afraid to propose Balerna the future. A few years ago they moved to Balerna whole buildings (the ossuary), the desire to create new solutions, therefore, is not new to go from here, you just know how to find.
This is not to revolutionize the road network, or create a utopian vision, the road is there and we hold it, but there are endless possibilities to make sure that this road is only one element of the square and will not be mistress. People I am always been master of the streets, the same story of modern man goes into the streets of cities and countries, the story of Balerna also involves the future of his square, let's not coursing away, we do that our history has a place to stop in the future.
Lucio Negri
* M. Botta, P. Crepet, G. Zois - where emotions live - Einaudi 2007
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