L'Aquila: the old and the new a year after the earthquake

Abstract

It's a year after the earthquake and the reconstruction of the old city has not yet begun. There isn't at the moment a plan of intervention, while a preliminary discussion of the plan has been approved. If for the city itself there has to be an urban re-structuring for the old city within the walls, on the other hand there should be established a plan of urban restoration, keeping above all the road grid, and those buildings which have been selected to be saved and restored should be reconstructed even with modern forms and technology. A serious effort should be made in the search for a correct meeing of the old and the new avoiding the exhibitionism of star architects and the unlikely reconstructions “as it was where it was.”