Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

the croocked of mayor Veltroni - Rome

massimo viggiani | 28.03.2006 00:41 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Rome: leftcenter + rightcenter=commercial centre

The crooked cake by Mr Veltroni - press release

The New City The City Council of Rome is about to vote in order to approve the new General Building Planning, that, in someone’s opinion (mayor included) would better the quality of life in our city, giving a solution for several problems such as lodging, green areas, public transport and car jam.
The New Planning, 80% of which has already been effected or approved, is, according to Mr Morassut, responsible for the policy of territory, a plan conceived not only by politicians, experts and the so called “palazzinari” (in the roman slang it stands for builders) , but also by citizens and associations, that would have taken part in the project of the future city.
The reality looks a bit different to many of those citizens and associations. After the “creative” economy of our present Ministry of Finance Giulio Tremonti, the City Council of the Eternal City seems to have adopted a similar system: turning on and on numbers and percentages in conferences without someone who can contest those ciphers .
Rome is suffering the emergency of thousands of people who can’t afford a house or a rent:
evictions for arrears are increasing every month and the new Planning doesn’t seem to care too much for such social disease (the builders are using this problem as an alibi for transforming part of the countryside into building areas).
In not much smaller proportion than Berlusconi’s conflict of interest, the roman builders have control on powerful media such the daily newspapers and tv’s.
Even the environmental laws don’t seem too bother too much the Public Administration: such laws can have retroactive or actual derogations. The relics of the “city countryside” are slowly disappearing.
The New Planning, over 70 milion of cube metres, ignore the evidence of the registred decrease of population: in the last ten years, over 170.000 Romans got convinced that all roads lead also out of Rome, in villages and small towns where rents and houses are cheaper and the traffic is bearable. Not to mention the lack of a General Traffic Planning, still to be approved.
These are the reasons why many associations and citizens are gathering these days to contrast the Plan and to divert it from its content of big shopping mall, speedways and not-cheap-at-all apartments. A city with glamour in the small historical Centre and with building speculation in the vast Suburbs, where 80% of the Romans do live.
Of course this is the result of a poor involvement of the citizens: 93% of the accepted proposals and project are related to building companies and only 7% to citizens and associations. Even the control of the participation still belongs to the council. And after the New Plan, “special projects” by counsellor Mr Minelli and other architectural nightmares.
Inhabitants and associations are demonstrating on next Monday, March 13th, in Piazza del Campidoglio, bringing turfs from different suburbs to the famous central square to show how the “periferie romane” (roman suburbs) are suffering and to include tourists in the demonstration and make them understand that Rome is bigger than Spanish Steps and Roman Forum: something out there is living. And asking for a different city life.
The crooked cake, bake by our Mayor, might be uneasy to eat.

Rome, March 10th 2006-03-11

Massimo Viggiani
member of the City Net for a Participated Plan

 flexiblewolf@libero.it
 http://romalibera.blog.tiscali.it/
 http://parcodellebetulle.splinder.com/

massimo viggiani
- e-mail: flexiblewolf@libero.it
- Homepage: http://romalibera.blog.tiscali.it

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech