Firenze: dall'immobilismo all'immobiliarismo
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Professor Adriano Cemento, teacher of cement technologies at the School of Architecture, Agrigento, accompanied by his Florentine driver, takes us on a tour of new urban development sites in and around Florence: Brindellone, one of the first examples of Florentine skyscrapers, blocks the view of the duomo on the horizon; cement gardens and traffic circles; the construction site of a private parking garage and shopping mall at the foot of Fortezza da Basso; the new skyscraper will house the courthouse; the ugly Coop Gavinana shopping center; the imminent arrival of 1.5 million cubic meters of cement to be poured onto the Piana di Castello. “Prospects for a bright future, because where there’s cement, there’s life,” the professor announces at the end of his reconnaissance mission to Florence.
Florence’s watch-and-see policy has both political and cultural roots. In the past 3 years, the only thing the city government has done is to issue building permits, despite the protests of 47 coalitions formed to stop these projects. The worst example is the parking garage and shopping mall under construction at the foot of Fortezza da Basso, a building site opened in complete disregard of regulations requiring a minimum space of 150 meters.
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