CHANADY, Amaryll Beatrice. Magical Realism and The Fantastic. Resolved Versus Unresolved Antinomy, New York, Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. [RECENSIÓN]

Abstract

L’articolo propone una riflessione sulla possibile nascita di nuovi sistemi funzionali urbani creati dalla attivazione delle linee TAV fra grandi città italiane. Attraverso il richiamo dell’interpretazione sistemica della città si propone una tassonomia delle possibili relazioni che potrebbero instaurarsi fra i sistemi urbani connessi ed in particolare fra i poli di Roma e Napoli che originano una nuova “Joint city”: RoNa. Infine si analizza la possibilità della creazione di attività urbane “ponte” in grado di funzionare in entrambi i centri urbani anche grazie a protocolli amministrativi comuni e condivisi.The new connections, that high speed railway allows to activate among the metropolitan systems, seem to be able to give life to new urban macro-structures for which the transfer time, among the main poles of the railway segment, it becomes comparable to an inside moving into the city and therefore considered as a interfunctional mobility. The tunnel effect generated by the high speed connection seems to be able to allow a new temporal and functional joint among the metropolitan systems consequently supporting the possibility, for the users, to move themselves among the different urban functions belonging to the different cities. The birth of these urban aggregations seems to conduct toward new megalopolis, which we can define for the first time with the term: joint-city. For this new metropolitan settlement it appears of great interest to investigate the constitutive peculiarities, the systemic articulation, its relationl structures, the evolutionary sceneries, and so on. When new connections are created among functional systems, previously separated, supported by the realization of physical infrastructures (like the HST) it is possible to envisage the birth of new multi-urban organizations, of new macrofunctional urban systems, of joint-cities, whose characteristics and articulations are all to deepen and they offer an interesting mind field to the town planning research