DEMOLISHING CORVIALE, GIVING SLAB-URBIA A CHANCE OF URBAN RENAISSANCE

THE NEW ECO-COMPACT GARDEN CITY AT CORVIALE, AVOE-CIVICARCH 2008

The Deputy Mayor for Housing at the Lazio Regional Administration, Teodoro Buontempo, stated recently that he has a dream: Demolishing Corviale.

It would be an incredible opportunity to give Italian Slab-Urbia a chance to re-generation. After all the failures on 20th century town-planning, finally it seems that a new era of sustainable urbanism can begin.

Corviale is a 1km long "Unité d'Habitation" built in the 1970s as example of brutalist architecture applied to social housing.
It accomodates some 6,000 inhabitants.

The demolition of this clear mistake in architecture, town-planning, and urban policy can lead the way to a new season in Italian architecture: URBAN RENAISSANCE to transform Slab-Urbia into true mixed-use eco-compact towns, neighborhoods and villages.

Corviale is possibly the most famous example of brutalist architecture in Italy, but almost all Italian cities have been vandalised during the 1970s by similar monsters: LAVATRICI at Genova, GALLARATESE at Milan, PILASTRO at Bologna, LAURENTINI Q 38 at Rome, VELE at Naples, ZEN at Palermo.

The Masterplan to transform Corviale into an Eco-Compact Garden City has been developed by AVOE at the International Workshop organised in 2008 at the University of Ferrara on: COMPACT CITIES vs SUBURBAN SKYSCRAPERS.
It calls for a new mixed-use Garden City on 14 ha accomodating some 12,500 inhabitants in 3-4 storey maximum buildings.
Hopefully it will help the re-generation of both Corviale and the Italian Slab- and Sub- Urbia.
Hopefully, it will serve as a tool for citizens to make choices on the urban environment to live in.


THE SITE OF CORVIALE IN 2010 WITH THE 1KM LONG SOCIAL HOUSING SLAB

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY URBAN NEW YEAR

From VILLA MEDICIS at Val d'Europe in a fantastic snowy day!

THE EMBARASSING VALENCIA CASE

Excuse me!
How is it possible that the Municipality of Bologna keeps saying that it is impossible to refurbish the 1990 Football Stadium because "it is surrounded by urban fabric" and the City of Valencia, Spain, EU, is actually building a 75.000 seats new Stadium right in the middle of the city?

Above Bologna, below Valencia
Excuse me!
I don't understand. Can you explain it to me?
Excuse me!

RIGHT IN THE CORE OF THE CITY

Comerica Park, the new stadium of the Tigers that has been built in the inner core of Detroit as part of the interventions of Urban Renaissance in 2000.
It has a capacity of 42.000 seats.
Who said in Bologna that it is impossible to build today an urban stadium?

LEARNING FROM WASHINGTON D.C.

The new stadium of the D.C. Nationals confirms the urban choice of Washington D.C.

GO WEST !

Today it is the time of Denver Coors Field. A great example of inner city re-vitalization through the construction of an urban stadium with shops, restaurants, cafes, etc.

NEW YORK METS GO CLASSICAL TOO

Learning from New York City !

AND THE YANKEES GO URBAN CLASSICAL

The fantastic new urban stadium by the New York Yankees
60.000 seats

Il nuovo fantastico nuovo stadio urbano dei New York Yankees
60.000 posti a sedere

GO GIANTS GO !

The fantastic stadium of the San Francisco Giants.
You can watch, you can shop, you can get there by tram!
And you can walk along the Bay.

Il fantastico stadio dei San Francisco Giants.
Si va allo stadio, si può fare shopping, si può arrivare in tram.
E, finita la partita, si è in centro e si può passeggiare lungo la Baia.

AN URBAN STADIUM FOR BOLOGNA

As a new Law has been voted by the Italian Parliament to finance the construction of new stadiums, it would be great if Italian cities do not build sub-urban stadiums as the one currently proposed for Bologna, lost in the middle of the countryside.
It would be great not to go sub-urban when US are currently turning into Urban ones.
Boston's Fenway Park will open a gallery of urban examples to help Italian cities building new stadiums as part of interventions of Urban Renaissance and not...UFO landed in the desert

dato che il Parlamento italiano ha votato una nuova legge per finanziare la costruzione di nuovi stadi, sarebbe geniale se le città italiane non costruissero stadi sub-urbani come quello proposto per Bologna, sperduto in mezzo alla campagna. Sarebbe geniale se non costruissero stadi sub-urbani raggiungibili solo con l'automobile, circondati da immensi parcheggi e generatori d'inquinamento.
Sarebbe geniale se non costruissero stadi sub-urbani quando gli Stati Uniti stanno costruendo nuovi stadi urbani.
Il Fenway Park di Boston apre una nuova serie di esempi urbani per aiutare le città italiane a costruire nuovi stadi come parte di operazioni di Rinascimento Urbano e non...UFO atterrati nel deserto