it can be sustainable? CITTÁ DI LEONIA è una cooperativa sociale che aderisce al Network
Eco-Recuperi nel territorio di Napoli e della Regione Campania.
Il Network raccoglie, seleziona, avvia reuse and dispose of spent cartridges (called "toner") for all types of printers (laser, inkjet, dot matrix) and copiers, all in full compliance with environmental regulations.
The Network also develops other services such as the collection of WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
http://www.cittadileonia.com/servizio-eco-box.htm
The city of Leonia derives its name from the famous Calvin cttà
Leonia
The city of Leonia builds itself every day: each morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped bars of soap, wear brand-new robes, extracts from the most sophisticated refrigerator still unopened tins, listening to the latest nursery rhymes that the last model of the appliance.
on the sidewalk, wrapped in plastic bags terse, the remains of yesterday's Leonia await the chariot of spazzaturaio. Not only rolled tubes of toothpaste, light bulbs fulminate, newspapers, containers, packaging materials, as well as water heaters, encyclopedias, pianos, porcelain dinner services: more than the everyday things are made sold bought, the opulence of Leonia is far from the things that are thrown away every day to make room for new ones. So much so that one wonders if Leonia's true passion is really as they say enjoy the new and different things, or rather, to expel, remove the self, the world of a recurrent impurity. What is certain is that spazzaturai are welcomed like angels, and their task of removing the remains of the existence of yesterday surrounded
of a respectful silence, like a ritual that inspires devotion, perhaps only because once thrown away the stuff nobody wants us to think about.
Where to run every day their responsibility for the spazzaturai if anyone asks, out of the city, of course, but every year the city expands, and garbage dumps are arrestrare far, the impressive revenue increases and s'inalzano stacks, are stratified, extend over a wider perimeter. Add to that the more the art of Leonia excels in making new materials, more garbage improves its substance, resists time, weather, in fermentation and combustion. It 's a fortress of indestructible leftovers surrounds Leonia that, as the overhangs on each side of a mountain plateau.
The results if it is this: Leonia expels more stuff the more you earn, the scales of its past are soldered into a cuirass that can not be removed; renewing each day the city retains all of herself in the only definitive form: the trash of yesterday which piled on the rubbish dell'altroieri and all his days and years and decades.
The Leonia's rubbish little by little would invade the world, if the extermination
garbage they were not pressing, despite the far ridge, garbage dumps in other cities, which also repel him away from the mountains of waste. Perhaps the whole world, beyond Leonia's boundaries, is covered by craters of rubbish, each with a central metropolis in continuous eruption. The boundaries between the city and foreign enemy bastions are infected when the debris of both of you to prop each other, they dominate, are mixed.
more you grow in height, more threatened by landslide: Just a jar, an old tire, a broadcaster fiasco rolls on the side of Leonia and a host of odd shoes, calendars of years past, flowers dry drown the city in his past that he tried in vain to repel, mixed with that of other neighboring cities, finally the world: a cataclysm will pave the sordid mountain range, erase every trace of the metropolis always dressed again. Right from the neighboring cities are ready with the rollers to flatten the ground, extend into new territory, expand themselves, move the new garbage dumps.
Italo Calvino Parigi, Napoli e il Randstad, tre casi a confronto.
Bruna Vendemmia
(Technical University Delft - postgraduate master in Urbanism).
Conference held at the International Workshop + Eco Density. Exercise Experimental ecodensità in a suburb of Milan.
21 to 28 September 2009.
http://www.urbancenter.to.it/indexSchedaConf.php?id_conf=156
Abstract
This short article represents an attempt to interpret the concept of density, based on an analysis of the causes that contribute to the creation dense urban areas and analyzing the changes that this process of densification makes the structure of the territory.
From methodological point of view we will analyze some dense areas in Europe, different geographical location and economic role, such as the Randstad (Netherlands), Paris (France) and Naples (Italy) and comparisons with 'metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bMilan. In fact it is one of the leaders of the so-called "Pentagon Europe" along with London, Paris, Monaco and Hamburg. The Pentagon is an area which, although on the surface rappesentando only 14% of the area (EU27), accounting for 32% of the population and produces 46.5% of the Product Intenro Gross-to-GDP-(ESPON). From these data suggest that this is not only a highly dense population level but also activity.
Densification and Urbanization
A major cause of densification is the phenomenon known as urbanization. Today, in fact, a small but growing number of cities "primary" is the site of the most important markets and multinational companies. The cities participating in an urban system that operates on a global scale. Cities located along infrastrutture e corridoi di comunicazione internazionali accrescono la loro importanza grazie al ruolo di collegamento che assumono (Sassen, 2006). Questo sviluppo economico comporta anche una crescita rilevante della popolazione con la conseguente migrazione di abitanti dalla campagna alla città. Secondo uno studio dell’Università del Michigan la popolazione urbana è cresciuta del 17% tra il 1950 ed il 2000, un numero pari a 2,8 bilioni di persone. Oggigiorno il 47% della popolazione vive in città ed è previsto che nel 2025 questa percentuale raggiungerà il 60%. Si conferma in questo modo l’ipotesi di Henry Lefebvre che la società contemporanea ha subito un processo di completa urbanizzazione (H.Lefebvre, 2003).
Questo fenomeno comporta anche numerose trasformazioni nella struttura del territorio. In particolare, la formazione di aree metropolitane implica la costruzione di nuove relazioni a scala territoriale: se a livello globale, infatti, si sviluppa un numero sempre crescente di collegamenti internazionali (un esempio può essere il caso di Londra e New-York), a livello locale si evita un dialogo spaziale diretto tra la città “primaria” ed il territorio che la circonda.
Da questo punto di vista l’accessibilità del territorio, che può be measured by the degree of infrastructure, acquires a higher value of the contiguity of functions. An example of this process can be found in the phenomenon of rilocalizzazzione of economic activities on a regional scale. Many economic activities are placed in abandoned areas and entire districts are located in old creative industries, hence the low cost of land and the high level of accessibility, due to previous industrial use, create the conditions necessary to facilitate a major development. This functional ownership of existing containers results in a transformation similar to the one that occurred in the nineteenth century. campaigns during the Napoleonic occupation (Brandon, 2006).
What is density?
At this point it is interesting to understand in more concrete terms what are the characteristics of a dense area and what are the factors that contribute to density. Winy Maas defines the density as the amount of space available per person, bringing the question of dimensional values \u200b\u200band statistics. He also adds that the density is the third dimension of the city (MVRDV, 2006). Nevertheless, the three cases examined in this brief study helps to understand that the density can not be defined only by a dimensional look.
From methodological point of view were compared to data on metropolitan areas of the Randstad, Paris and Naples metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bMilan and the similarities or the differences in the number of inhabitants, the territorial and the resulting population density, led the investigation of various factors that contribute to the concentration of density as the structure of the system infrastructure, the historical evolution of the settlements and the location of green spaces. These factors outline the same amount of space available per person, different models of future development and densification.
The Randstad and Naples to Milan to define the obvious differences in the pattern of settlement. In fact, the Randstad is characterized as a highly urbanized area distributed around a central green (the green heart). The road infrastructure system is defined by the presence of a ring-road serving the four cities (Amsterdam-The Hague-Rotterdam-Utrecht) take the form that the Metropolitan Area.
the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bNaples, by contrast, is characterized as a spontaneous density case in which the densification is achieved by two overlapping processes, on the one hand, a strong infrastructure Street and the other the expansion of the main settlement, Naples, and the reunion with the secondary centers of agricultural structure inherited from the early '900.
the contrary by comparison Milan / Paris was noted at numerous structural similarities, although the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bthe French capital to reach a population density equal to half the capital of Lombardy although much larger and people of this' last. E 'can see that both cities have developed according to a model characterized by a high central density, a crown of working-class neighborhoods that developed after World War II (The "ceinture rouge to Paris), and a more or less the existing green belt.
Conclusions
densify as is evident from this analysis can not only mean an increase in population in a limited portion of territory, though this represents the first step, but one must take into account many other factors that contribute to this process.
It becomes necessary to reflect again on the structure of the city itself and that it has the ability to absorb a growing number growing population. In fact, the growth process of our urban areas, derived from the overlap of the expansion of urban infrastructure of the territory, has created a phenomenon of redefinition of the scale of the city. The suburbs that developed after World War II, in many cases without a defined project, but as the tanks STORAGE popolazipone, have now become an integral part of metropolitan areas. Only understanding of this aspect will make possible the formulation of numerous and different strategies for densification. These should cover not only the completion of existing settlements through the design of public spaces and service, but also the upgrading of degraded areas and the integration of brownfield sites, parts of the territory they represent, today, fractures in the development of the urban fabric.
is clear, moreover, as the redevelopment space is a point of departure in order to enable a total regeneration, which also targets the social and economic aspects.
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