Milano-Torino, per pensare in positivo
Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:41
Su Città Nuova on line sono di scena Torino e Milano. Cliccando sulle pagine web della rivista, è possibile leggere un articolo di Silvano Gianti dal titolo “Non possiamo stare a guardare” . Gianti racconta come il fondo famiglia-lavoro istituito dal Card. Tettamanzi ha aiutato quasi 3mila famiglie e distribuito fondi per circa 6 milioni di euro. Uno stimolo per la Milano individualista ad aprire i propri orizzonti.
Basta scendere un po' più in basso e l'articolo "Torino, capitale della fraternità". Michele Genisio racconta come la città sabauda sta scoprendo nell’ostensione un’occasione affascinare migliaia di turisti ma non solo: capitale del barocco e regina del gusto, Torino ha le carte in regola per divenire capitale della fraternità.
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Can We Design cities for happiness?
Monday, 03 May 2010 14:09
In the following we present an interesting article, originally posted in English in the blog Shareable cities.
Enrique Penalosa was the mayor of Bogot, the capital city of Colombia. From his political experience, which lasted till 2001, he drew interesting conclusions, which he is now sharing all over the world; the core of his message is about improving the quality of life for everyone living in cities today.
Thanks to the successes of his political mandate, Penalosa stands as a beacon of hope for cities of the developing world, which with their poverty and immense problems will absorb much of the world’s population growth over the next half-century.
That is why Penalosa uses phrases like “quality of life” or “social justice”, to describe his agenda of offering poor people first-rate government services and pleasant public places; these are just some examples of a much more complex project, which aims at making happiness a common good, acccessible to everybody.
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