In the same way as chemical synapses in our brain, which materialize sensations, ideas and events of our lives, as well as the alleys, walls and roofs of cities they make the collective memory of our province corporeal.
Every year of history can be found in the forms of the ancient peasant courts, in the materials of cornices of the old buildings and in the identical balconies of the new neighborhoods 167.
We are among those who they believe in the existence of strong relationships between adapted space and lives of the men who transformed him.
And like in any system Overall the implications are mutual: not only can we read history of recent years through the metaphor of cement, how fluid it is possibility of any form and instead hardened is staticity and choice, image which alone would be enough to describe what could have been and instead was; but we can also on the contrary think about the influence that squares, gardens and better houses  they would have produced on our lives, an influence as strong as that produced by notable investments  and new opportunities work.
Of course it's not ours intention to enter into a difficult discussion on the relationship between structure and superstructure and how much one prevails over the other and vice versa; let's say simply that there are two obvious aspects that often cause speculation philosophical forget. The first, irrefutable in its simplicity, is the difference in sensations that they arouse well-designed spaces, such as those of ancient historic centers, compared to those of many neighborhoods of the new city. L'altro aspetto, relativo alle public works, concerns the participation which only appropriately designed spaces can foster.
We believe that the added value to produce the acceleration they have  need them our provinces must be sought in the consciences of men and not just in economic systems.
Many scholars of Midday they consider the election direct from the mayors in 1992, the entry into Europe and in particular the G7 a Naples as driving forces of the economic recovery, sensing a new state of mind, a trust that now seemed to have definitively disappeared and which instead gave new life also for the production system.
The economy cannot suffer profound changes in a few years without underlying enthusiasm, without that fervor that in the post-war period, for example, caused it to be rebuilt in just a few years nations; after all, this dependence on the moods of men makes it one a discipline that is not truly scientific, and therefore which requires intervention not only on a strictly financial level.
A new policy for cities of the South is then also to begin building spaces of qualities, such as to have the strength to accelerate the transformation process.
Many administrators they will reply that they have already been moving in this direction for some time and will list the numerous recently built public works: new roads, squares modern, municipal villas, and so on.
But our reasoning is based on an essentially different point: the quality of the construction and not the quantity. Not all the reorganization efforts, which are being made, are being made urban planning - architecture of heritage existing are the same: only well-designed and built places have the strength to have a positive impact on our lives, and to do this we need a new way of entrusting tasks for public works.
The administrations do not they can think about them as a private client would: entrust tasks public "ad personam" is an act of presumption, because a politician cannot understand all disciplines.
In his eyes the work designed could be the best in the world and instead betray everyone aesthetic and functional standards. And then imagine the damage: a square that doesn't manages to aggregate, a deserted municipal villa, a crossroads without visibility and crowded with cars; these are the works that will then constitute ours "memory"...
We emphasize that honesty is out of the question: that the directors appoint their consultants (even friends) for projects does not mean that they are colluding, often they are also a question of naivety and desire for transparency, for example, entrusting assignments to university professors, yet everyone now knows as much as ours universities are full of boasters: let us therefore clarify the matter again this time it is not about morality, but about value.
In fact, without demagogy, one of the main reasons that generated the trust, which we were talking about earlier, it is precisely due to administrations that have made honesty their own flag, but this is not enough! Honesty is not synonymous with quality, perhaps it is moral value, but that's something else.
We believe (although not recognizing ourselves in the liberalist trend) which is the only one warranty for quality there is fair competition: and therefore in case of public works i competitions for ideas. Tool that would allow us to overcome the free will of our administrators and to avoid the censorship that they however operate by entrusting the task to a designer or to another.
L'intellectual honesty of our mayors cannot do without recognize that if we were able to initiate this solution, the most democratic at all, the public works sector would result revolutionized; as has happened in all European countries: obtaining quality and transparency.
In ancient Greece indeed theinvention of the competition allowed democracy to control value, without making ideological censorship. THE'agon, competition in the public life of the Greeks, performed "the function of mediate conflicts without censoring them". In sport, in art, in politics and in every other institution "competition allows keep the question of ancient duels (who is the best?), but give it a new sense: who is the best in relation to things, who is the best for dominate not man, but nature?".
Of course the speech has a general value, but in this case the nature they are public works with their "responsibility" in ongoing development process and with their ability to make the our lives.
Of course it is always one political decision in the end having to choose the "best" project but, after having exposed the works to the public, the Administration could knowing the moods of the city and above all having the possibility to choose on a range of solutions.
Also competitions for ideas they are a splendid educational system: they allow the city and its representatives to improve one's aesthetic sense, to train one's imagination stopped by years of building speculation all the same, but above all it allows the dialogue and public debate, no longer with the usual theoretical discussions on methods to improve one's city, but through the exposure of works and through a timely criticism of the possible scenarios envisaged by the designers.

Competitions would do to give citizens the pleasure of discussion again, after having been forced for years to listen only to electoral programs: the participation in political choices is the right way to regain trust and fill the squares again.