In 2009, the program for his re-election as mayor, the lively Gheri Simon, despite his yearnings for the future and change, it uses the same arsenal of slogans used ad nauseum during nearly three decades. Start
with a burst of free and self-congratulatory statements:
"The design vision and the consequent ability to govern the changes demonstrated in recent decades has meant that it did not become Scandicci [at this point, there are already two mistakes in Italian] a anonymous suburb, a 'dormitory neighborhood', but gradually more and more a city with its own character, sense of community, of belonging, role and substance. "
I can hardly understand what you're talking Gheri the mayor, maybe the fact that so many old and useful shops (now 'obsolete', they would say the innovators) have disappeared to make way for clothing stores and trendy new banks, which in a few years have doubled or tripled in number. Simone
Gheri continues undeterred:
"This result is due to the work of all, a team game in which the policy, administrators, economic groups, workers - in a word, citizens - have been involved. All players, no pop.
We opened the doors to cultural experimentation, socialization, education systems of innovation, entrepreneurship. We have encouraged the growth of our city around the material values \u200b\u200b[gotta live!] And intangible assets. We have translated the aspirations into achievements. We have designed, as children do, a city people to people and slowly, with care and attention, we started to build it. A garden, two gardens, three gardens. A square, two squares, three squares. A school, two schools, three schools. A nursery school, two kindergartens, three kindergartens. Bricks, stones. Not just bricks. Not only stones. But bricks and stones for men, women, children. For people. (...) We have proposed a vision, a project. Idea. Or rather, an ideal ".
From the style, it seems that Simon has been reading a lot Gheri The Little Prince, the "crazy shit".
The 'ideal' mentioned by the mayor, however, stripped of rhetoric culturalist (we like to call our city as the city of knowledge "), a fierce steel core.
"Stay, ours, a local attraction, in which companies are willing to settle. We believe that our ability and political sensitivity, together with the provision of infrastructure and the overall quality that the city is able to express, have been and should continue to be key factors to strengthen and develop our ability to attract and allow us to continue to see Scandicci like a real city of work. (...) They increase the number of professional firms and entrepreneurs operating in the field of business services and personal services. In the near future, these activities also will find other spaces in the city center and along the axis of the tramway. "
Here we arrive at the substance of the project: to attract and encourage the establishment of enterprises in Scandicci, traders and business.
"It 's our goal to support this process with more involvement actions and involvement of employers in the trade. Consolidate the natural reality of the shopping center, that the pedestrian-axis resistance Matteotti and the new Rogers Centre, will further enhance our ability to attract metro.
more clearly than that!
Everything else ("a bench two fountains, three lamps) is a rigmarole of hot air.
course a bit 'of festivals for the people it takes (as in all ages of the past), a dash, even abundant, culturame will help meet the aspirations of the middle class, reflective, and finally a Rogers Centre, which will be a mirabilandia supermarket, will satisfy the needs urbis et orbis.
In short, the mindset of administrators is always to 50 years ago when, by encouraging speculation until the saturation of all the spaces, Scandicci led to the Nakba.
What if we did not succeed completely, it was not 'blame' them. But today, with this update, the objective will certainly be achieved. Scandicci
seems to me that has developed and will still thrive (in a strictly business), thanks to an advantageous position, ie exploiting its proximity to Florence and the availability of remaining space to fill. Has not developed its own energy, their skills, but parasitically--tries to exploit opportunities that only the proximity of Florence offers. But these occasions, for excessive greed, can not even enter it without too much shock to suit the urban setting in which he built. He is trying to grab as he can, even if this indigestion of opportunities and initiatives will break the law and way of life that had been consolidated.
It 's true that the Mayor Simone Gheri, which takes as its motto the phrase sfruttatissimo John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the program also seems to express his good intentions Ecologist.
"We care about the environment like people, because they attach to the term 'environment' philosophical connotations [Wow!], Cultural and economic, that is focused on the person's problem." But we are still unclear. Soon after, however, the Mayor sets out a principle, less philosophical and practical, which destroys what you just said and such a broad spectrum that can justify any header, including the recent installation of large and even ugly billboards public gardens, in front of the most beautiful thing I've Scandicci, the great pine Coop.
"The city is alive and continues if it turns. The changes are a sign of a city able to move forward, innovate and reinvent themselves: able to respond to new needs, new desires, new rights, economies, their crisis and new development models. "
I remember one little fact: in the second half of the sixties, the most important Italian cities dismantled more than they could their tramways. To meet the 'new needs, new desires, economies and new models of development', the brilliant administrators then disarmed the city and gave her helpless to car ownership.
PS In my titles I mentioned vandals Jacobins. The vandalism I think I explained enough. I've also called Jacobins, because they claim, after all, to tell us citizens how to live and what we need.
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