"In a country pressed for cash and distracted by the tabloid travails of its prime minister, the success of the emergency efforts has paradoxically fed the impression that L’Aquila no longer needs urgent help"
"What’s the solution? Even while bombs were falling on London during the Blitz in 1940, British planners were conjuring up visions of a new postwar London. Calamity became an opportunity to dream. In the absence of a strong, guiding leadership, strong urban planning laws or public forums where citizens might seriously grapple with a future L’Aquila, there is only the dawning sense that opportunity may be slipping away. But opportunity still exists, perhaps to embrace new architecture alongside old, as L’Aquila did after the earthquake in 1703, when the city became the beloved Baroque one everyone now wants to preserve as if it had always been there. Never a perfect city but a real, living one, L’Aquila might yet become the model for a new sort of 21st century historic center in Italy
[...] Bureaucracy and the wrong priorities bogged down progress"
"What’s the solution? Even while bombs were falling on London during the Blitz in 1940, British planners were conjuring up visions of a new postwar London. Calamity became an opportunity to dream. In the absence of a strong, guiding leadership, strong urban planning laws or public forums where citizens might seriously grapple with a future L’Aquila, there is only the dawning sense that opportunity may be slipping away. But opportunity still exists, perhaps to embrace new architecture alongside old, as L’Aquila did after the earthquake in 1703, when the city became the beloved Baroque one everyone now wants to preserve as if it had always been there. Never a perfect city but a real, living one, L’Aquila might yet become the model for a new sort of 21st century historic center in Italy
[...] Bureaucracy and the wrong priorities bogged down progress"
Vale a dire che la burocrazia e le prioritá sbagliate hanno bloccato il progresso. Ecco appunto.
PS.: Potete trovare la traduzione dell'articolo, qui.
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