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Magazine, Environment and Territory

Take a huge urban land abandoned by factories and a group of real estate builders. Mischief a lot of rights buildings and mixed.

This is the recipe for Spina 3 million square meters not far from the city center, the largest of processing zones in Turin.

Some suggestions:

-- The area may also be polluted enough (there were locate Michelin Dora Ferriere Fiat, Savigliano, Paracca), but the full remediation is only if it costs less land values

-- measured the partition between manufacturers Property (cooperatives and private) in various policy areas-not for nothing Spina 3 began with Ipercoop and Medusa -

-- public services are not necessary (so the people complain about some 'and then "we industry")

-- you make a municipal committee which more riottosi can call to complain about and arrange their holidays neighbors "

-- send around social scientists who study the behavior of neo-residents (from those who, positively, have been given home "popular" in the area).

Plans urban-social? preventive facilities such as schools, clinics, centers for aggregation young and the elderly? citizen involvement? role of Districts? All things unnecessary, that they know so much about "old".

Today the role of "public" is marginal, it is fashionable among the few decisions: the territory must above all be able to offer opportunities for profit, competing with other areas in crisis.

Citizens are limited to elect their representatives every 5 years. But other areas are the real decision.

And while the privatization policy is increasingly the Circumscriptions (theoretically the institutions closest to the people) do everything to be unnecessary.

A painting too bleak? That is the view of DORA THE THREE SPINA, a committee of volunteer citizens working since 2005 to improve the life of Spina 3, a project both hosanna, but now could be called "orphan of fathers."

Qualcosetta has moved: a school of early childhood compared to the times, the start of the work of the former Poliambulatorio Superga (less than 4 years as initially agreed), positive signs of social occurring in different districts (which are called by the ex-factory).

But some of the more than 10,000 new residents still live in the midst of ongoing (among other things, the municipality has given 10 years for manufacturers to build the works of urbanization around the house) and public services that were already inadequate for population there.

It re-emerged recently are also concerns for the necessary environmental rehabilitation. Faced with newspaper reports on the presence of hexavalent chromium in soil and groundwater, the ARPA has sciorinato the findings of residues values of heavy metals in the area, considering non-hazardous to health.

The data Officers depart from 400-500 thousand cubic meters of waste and very high values of heavy metal pollution left by the ex-factory, speak explicitly of the cost too high for a full remediation compared to the value of the land (80 million euro against 25 million euros) and succinctly describe the reclamation had already made that produced a situation of putting security in the area.

What has not happened is that the municipality, as responsible public health, public relations, with a better public on noted at the time, the reclamation carried out and do. It takes the commitment to a permanent monitoring of water and land in the area, both residential and those intended for placement of companies and Park.

Already the "park" Dora! 450,000 square meters of area that define the "green" is pretentious. The Committee asks that the future park, financed by EU funds for 150enario Italy, is also attentive to the needs of the citizens of the district, with enriched places of entertainment but also of culture that can not irrespective of historical memory in the area of Labor, not yet protected. Memory that could provide a common identity between old and new residents.