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In Italia il Codice dei Beni Culturali (2004- 2011) determina un destino incerto per le opere del secondo Novecento. Le incongruenze delle attuali procedure legislative sollecitano profondamente il ruolo culturale delle ricerche che usano metodologie meta progettuali e pongono la questione del ruolo culturale degli Uffici che di fatto decidono del destino della città costruita. Il saggio presenta il caso dell'edificio commerciale "Salamone & Pullara" (1964 - 1968) opera di Gabriele Nicoletti lungo la circonvallazione di Palermo. Nonostante la possibilità concreta di trasformarlo con efficacia per un nuovo uso, dimostrata da ricerche progettuali eseguite nell'ambito universitario e ampiamente comunicata attraverso appelli alla difesa del manufatto condivisi da molti soggetti istituzionali, l'edificio è stato demolito nel luglio 2017. Rievocarne la vicenda ha valore per affermare il ruolo del progetto nella costruzione di una prospettiva di tutela trasformativa per il costruito del secondo Novecento, sensibile ai suoi contenuti architettonici, chiaro nelle implicazioni teoriche a sostegno della nuova attribuzione di senso politico e semantico che questi luoghi aspettano. ; In Italy, the Code of Cultural Heritage (Codice dei Beni Culturali 2004-2011) determines an uncertain destiny for the buildings of the late twentieth century. The inconsistencies of the current legislative procedures call for the researches based upon meta-design methodologies and deeply question the cultural role of the Institutions that decide the destiny of the urban landscape. The essay presents the case of the commercial building "Salamone & Pullara" (1964 - 1968), the work of Gabriele Nicoletti along the Palermo ring road. Despite the concrete possibility of profitable recycling it for a new use, widely demonstrated by university research project further supporting many appeals to the maintenance of the building shared by several institutional subjects, the building was demolished in July 2017. To recall this event is relevant to affirm the role of the architectural project in framing the buildings of the second half of the twentieth century in a perspective of "transformative protection". That new approach will be sensitive to their architectural contents, clear in its theoretical implications and crucial for the attribution of renewed political and semantic meaning that these buildings expect.

L'infrastruttura contemporanea amplia e fa slittare il proprio campo semantico, trasformandosi definitivamente da artefatto tecnico di carattere titanico ed epico ad elemento riparatore dei tessuti urbani, flessibile, trasformabile. In questo quadro in mutazione, numerose esperienze negli ultimi trent'anni hanno affermato in Europa occidentale il ruolo dei grandi progetti ferroviari come vettori di trasformazione urbana. A quindici anni dall'avvio della prima stagione di concorsi internazionali banditi per le nuove stazioni dell'Alta Velocità in Italia, è possibile un bilancio volto non solo al semplice confronto dei risultati direttamente pertinenti la realizzazione e l'esercizio dell'opera, ma indirizzati anche a cogliere le relazioni che le nuove stazioni hanno saputo e potuto stabilire con le porzioni urbane coinvolte, in un contesto politico e di governance in cui sono ormai mutate le condizioni di attuazione e gestione dei progetti. L'evocazione dei casi di Bari Centrale, Napoli Afragola, Roma Tiburtina, Firenze Belfiore, Bologna Centrale, Torino Porta Susa, supporterà alcune riflessioni in merito a nuovi elementi che determinano l'ampiezza degli effetti decisionali della politica e dell'amministrazione sui territori, sulle capacità architettoniche di questi grandi sistemi urbani, e permetterà di leggere con chiarezza l'opposizione fra città con strategie integrate e sinergie di intenti fra soggetti diversi e altre che soffrono cronicamente della discontinuità dei processi governativi, amministrativi e politici. ; Developed as a trans-scale reflection that focuses on the relationship between urban peripheries, unprecedented urban transformations, railway architecture and infrastructure in the era of high-speed transport, this article offers insights on a number of contemporary Italian and European projects. By examining several representative case studies, this essay will provide a clearer context for the major changes that are re-orienting these incomparable urban operations, seen as the products of a new economic, administrative and social organization. In the new perspective of the metropolitan-cities, it is the very idea of the periphery that will be redefined, overlapping with the idea of the extended city as it replaces the countryside and urbanized rural areas. The amount and breadth of the disciplinary studies concerning the roles in governance responsibility for the transformation of public space by means of infrastructure, is a strong indicator of the relationship between the level of coherence specific to and shared by the figures engaged in the planning process and the synergy between all the actors involved, synergy which is required to ensure the success of the interventions. This context, which redefines the scope of the effects of political and administrative decisions on the territory, will create an even stronger contrast between cities with integrated strategies and a synergy of intent between different actors, and others that suffer from a chronic instability in government, administrative and political processes.

"The reflection of the harbour. The Tanger Port project: political promotion and urban fragmentation" Relying on several large-scale projects launched during the fifteen-year reign of King Mohammed VI, Morocco is addressing its unprecedented infrastructural development as a crucial tool to bolster its economic competitiveness, and to turn the country into an attractive platform for foreign investment. Contributing to enhance the northern region and its Mediterranean façade, the Tanger Port renewal should be framed within the context of the colossal container terminal of Tanger Med, in a scenario distinguished by the current political promotion of the monarchical discourse. As the Tanger Port project reaches completion, a number of critical issues have been raised regarding the application of this trend in urban waterfront regeneration. The generic architecture master-planned by Forster, Reichen and Rober, ends up isolating the old town, especially Medina, from the new linear luxury fragment on the coast. The misinterpretation of the cultural and potential values expressed by this unique spatial identity, increases the social and economic gap dividing this fragmented urban realm. Because infrastructure always acts on a symbolic level, the influence of Tanger Port on the city of Tangiers questions the role of innovation in these processes, and illuminates how these new forms of spatial production, driven by foreign capitals and delineated by megaprojects, respond to the renewal of urban structures.

High Speed railways in China. Policies, strategies and territories. by Marc Guigon The history of High-Speed railways in China is not a linear one, traced in the course of a rigorous planning process. It has on the contrary experienced moments of rapid surge, only to be followed by periods of slower growth. Fervid action, decision-making and euphoria have been accompanied by scathing failures, against a background of corruption and complex relations with the foreign providers of fundamental technology. The ! nal result is noteworthy however, because China currently has the largest High-Speed railroad network in the world, with a very high level of customer satisfaction, though the cost has been the exorbitant sum of many hundreds of billion euros, which no other country on the planet could a# ord. The lightning-fast construction of the Chinese High-Speed Railway network, directed single-handedly by the Ministry of the Railways, is associated however with a lack of parallel urban strategies.

At the heart of urban dynamics over the past few decades, the reconversion of riverside and port spaces in cities of the western world is associated with the deindustrialisation of these sites, often situated near historic city centres. This contemporary situation puts industrial heritage conversion at the centre of thinking which goes beyond the mere conservation of the original value of the buildings to question the future of cities, in relation to the notion of sustainability. In New York, after thirty years of neglect, the old railway viaduct known as the "High Line" has been transformed into an elevated, linear urban parkway. The project must be reframed within the Hudson Riverpark operation, an impressive requalification of the Manhattan riverside, also associated with the older Riverside Park. The High Line is a vestige of the first Industrial Revolution, a suggestive, hybrid creation of a flexible morphology mingling infrastructure and building. Its reconversion has succeeded in reactivating growth in an important part of the Meatpacking district. The operation brings together local authorities, the New York city administration and landowning companies. In the wake of the regeneration of the east bank of Manhattan, its reconversion does not follow the dominant model of waterfront regeneration, pioneered in the United States since the 1960s. Through its prism, different political, economic and social relationships can be identified (arrival of Michael Bloomberg as mayor, the "railway banking" procedure, the 'Friends of the High Line' association), creating a new approach which has already become a reference. From Chicago to Philadelphia, and not forgetting Rotterdam, many cities now envisage the rehabilitation of vast urban sectors in the same way, by converting their railway viaducts in the manner of the High Line. The importance of this operation allows us to consider deindustrialisation as a process capable of engendering a change in the urban territory through an approach at different scales and crossing over existing boarders.

In 2010 the submarine base in Saint-Nazaire was declared 'Heritage of the XX century' by the French Ministère de la Culture et de la Communnication. Thereafter it became the symbol of a new approach related to heritage that recognises the tangible and intangible heritage in all its forms, not only restricted to the artifact acknowledged as a 'monument'. Remembrance, the material assets or the little known places have thus contributed to defining a new urban dimension projected toward the future. The case of Saint-Nazare, relating clearly to the relationship between waterfront and military heritage, encourages us to meditate on the role of urban design in the transformation of the contemporary city.

Isolated from its harbour by the submarine base built during World War II, Saint-Nazaire has added to its development over the last two decades, without referring to major European models. An important arts and tourist center has been built around the port zone, close to the German submarine base. The converted military structure, which is situated in an impressive public space, has been endowed with a new sense of identity. It stands out as the main element in the urban regeneration process, focusing on the cultural and tourist character of the programme and aiming to reinforce the relationship between the city and its port.

Au cours des deux dernières décennies Saint-Nazaire a relancé son développement sans se référer nécessairement aux modèles des métropoles européennes. Concentrées autour de la zone portuaire, près de la base sous-marine allemande, les nouvelles opérations urbaines ont contribué à définir un important projet touristique et culturel. La spécificité symbolique et la valorisation du patrimoine militaire ont permis à Saint-Nazaire de montrer que l'identité d'une ville pouvait activer sa croissance.