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now thought to be pacified and reconciled with the municipal administration. Actually I was just resigned to its democratic dictatorship . But now a new powerful wave of ugliness in the form of dozens of posters very massive and heavy, came to disturb even the existence of those who, like me, spends his life in a very narrow scope and only a desire to spend quiet mornings between the Eagle bar, the Market Square and the library bathrooms.
This act of vandalism, this affront to the city's landscape, has awakened in me an old anger and the desire to tell all what I think too much of glorifying achievements of urban Scandicci. Before giving my opinion overall, however, I think it is useful to repeat the letters I had written to some local newspapers when he began to speak for the first time of use plan.
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L'Eco di Scandicci, April 25, 1985
New Plan

The New Master Plan of the City leaders and their spokesmen have made a lot of rhetoric, but who had to pronounce (the citizens of Scandicci) other hand, remained silent.

In general the media which may be disposed (including the lack of meetings) is failure is total, during these months are decisive for the fate of the NPR, the slightest attempt at analysis and opinion that deviate from general statements.

The NPR will have a very deep (for better or for worse) on our town, will completely change its appearance. Yet there is a disturbing silence.

scandiccesi Where are the intellectuals? Where cultural and political associations are able to critically assess the reality? Where the fabric of democracy which, with easy optimism is concerned, you credit its existence?

E 'ability to critically discuss the decisions that concern, allowing the population broken up buying a size of the city.

The City Council is convinced however that it is enough to have the symbols and functions of the (ugly) modern city to move from the rank of a suburban city of the future.

If modern city means a city of business, yes, then the Master Plan will help the outskirts-Scandicci to become a modern town on business.

But if modern city means a place that has a line stolen from the aesthetic whims of the case and the interests of the strong categories, then I'm sure the new plan will give Scandicci only the chaos of modernity and occasionally enrichment few traders and professionals.

The NPR, providing the maximum concentration and centralization of the physical wide area around the Town Hall, would have the effect (apparently paradoxical) to give a further contribution to human and cultural disintegration of the population scandiccese.

readers will think that such radical criticism to arise from decisions made by specialists silly presumption. But in the field of architecture and urbanism, the specialized knowledge is not enough. On the question of the NPR, which should be decisive for choosing is the consideration of people's daily lives.

Lewis Mumford wrote in 'The Future of the City': "All errors colossal that were committed during the last quarter century in terms of urban renewal, construction of highways, transport, land use, recreational services, were made by experts and highly qualified specialists.