Génova. Puerto y metrópoli.

Resumen

Over the last two decades Genoa has been observing the transformation of its port into a node for attracting the flow of people and activities, while making a great effort to redesign its relationships with the land, economy and society into a pattern in which city and port construct a single identity. In a complicated and drawn-out process, a gradual progressive transformation is taking place, the results of which will not be seen for decades yet. The joint remodelling of the Old Port and the Historie Centre is the most visible part of a metamorphosis which affects a geopolitical area divided by circuits and relationships. Each decision in the planning of space jeopardises a series of issues: financing, heritage preservation and management, relationships between spaces, imbalance between centre and periphery, distribution of uses, free and easy accessibility, isolation or congestion, preservation of the environment, communication between inhabitants and recent arrivals, updating of the right to the city and creation of new citizensrights. Genoa is a privileged laboratory for the understanding and undertaking of the great difficulties encountered by port metropolises.