Strategic Masterplan of Palermo
Palermo, Italy
2011
program: Strategic masterplan for the city of Palermo
total area: 3 700 000 m2
client: Confindustria Palermo
project: Alfonso Femia * with
engineering and economical aspects: Intertecno Spa
urban planning consultant: UNDERS
consultant for traffic and infrastructure aspects: MIC
local consultants: 0100
photos: ©E.Caviola
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
Palermo, Italy
2011
program: Strategic masterplan for the city of Palermo
total area: 3 700 000 m2
client: Confindustria Palermo
project: Alfonso Femia * with
engineering and economical aspects: Intertecno Spa
urban planning consultant: UNDERS
consultant for traffic and infrastructure aspects: MIC
local consultants: 0100
photos: ©E.Caviola
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
“Sharing strategic objectives at the scale of the city, and understanding the weight that these objectives have on the interest of the individual, undermine the inevitability of a silent public unable to guide the transformation, and of a private individual simply interested in the areas where he lives, both physically and economically.”
Palermo’s project is born by a lecture of the reality and by a demand.
The reality that becomes so pragmatically obvious to the part that promoted this strategic purpose is the one of a city that have inside a series of areas, mainly of public property, of a extraordinary importance for the city (both for its locations than for dimensions, potential and urban-environmental qualities), all in a status of upcoming or possible disposal and reuse.
Considering what these transformed areas could represent, it has been highlighted the necessity to create a lecture and interpretation system of the city aspect, in order to relocate these areas both from urban point of view and as symbolic strength.
The reality that becomes so pragmatically obvious to the part that promoted this strategic purpose is the one of a city that have inside a series of areas, mainly of public property, of a extraordinary importance for the city (both for its locations than for dimensions, potential and urban-environmental qualities), all in a status of upcoming or possible disposal and reuse.
Considering what these transformed areas could represent, it has been highlighted the necessity to create a lecture and interpretation system of the city aspect, in order to relocate these areas both from urban point of view and as symbolic strength.