Come funziona una città metropolitana
How a Metropolitan City Functions
Una raccolta di contributi che analizzano il primo anno di vita della città metropolitana di Milano è l’occasione per riflettere più in generale sulla metropoli; per ragionare su come i soggetti competitivi siano oggi i sistemi territoriali, crocevia di flussi e talenti. Milano, che risulta essere l’ottava città del mondo per connettività, oggi potrebbe finalmente avere gli strumenti amministrativi adeguati alle sfide. Con il superamento delle Province e l’istituzione delle Città metropolitane, la legge Delrio (n. 56 del 7 aprile 2014) ha introdotto infatti una visione funzionalista, non definendo uno snodo intermedio tra Comuni e Regione, ma un ente territoriale a funzione definita incentrata principalmente sulla promozione e lo sviluppo strategico. Il volume – curato da Vittorio Biondi, direttore del Settore Competitività territoriale, Ambiente ed Energia di Assolombarda – si sofferma anche sul confronto tra il caso milanese, quelli di altre città italiane e le più significative esperienze europee. (Lina Bonardi) A collection of essays analysing the first year of life of the metropolitan city of Milan provides an opportunity to reflect in a more general way on the metropolis; to think about how competition today is between territorial systems, crossroads of flows and talents. Milan, which is classified as the eighth most connected city in the world, can at last have the tools of administration it needs to meet the challenges it faces. With the abolition of the provinces and the institution of metropolitan cities, the Delrio law (no. 56 of 7 April 2014) has in fact introduced a functionalist vision, not defining a halfway house between municipality and region but a territorial entity with a well-defined function that centres principally on promotion and strategic development. The volume – edited by Vittorio Biondi, director of the Regional Competitiveness, Environment and Energy Sector of Assolombarda – also makes a comparison between the case of Milan, those of other Italian cities and the most significant European experiences A modern epic poem: the odyssey of Orlando who, by the will of the Gods, sets off from Alexandria in Egypt in 320 BCE on a journey in search of the primordial genetic material of the city. A journey of over 2,500 years through Western civilization: from ancient Greece to New York in the 1960s, passing through Renaissance Florence, London at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, Paris in the days of the storming of the Bastille and Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. A journey also made up of images, songs, words, events, fragments: the Code of Hammurabi, the lyrics of Jim Morrison, the writings of Rem Koolhaas and Aldo Rossi, the Magna Carta, Gropius and the Bauhaus, Google Glass, Francis “Frank” Underwood… To show that the essence of the city cannot be postulated, that no scientific discourse can capture its complexity. What remains is the fascination with the city as a positive and many layered place, rich in experiences. The book is epic in its format too: over 800 pages, 1,500 illustrations and as many fragments of texts, the result of research coordinated by Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann at the department of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich