Autopsy of a Plan. The Secchi-Viganò Plan for Brescia

Journal title ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
Author/s Giulio Lupo, Barbara Badiani
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2009/96
Language Italian Pages 45 P. 5-49 File size 797 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASUR2009-096001
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The Secchi-Viganò Paln for the city of Brescia was adopted in 1998; it was revoked in 2001 with a sentence pronounced by the Administrative Court (Tar) which caused a bit of a sensation among the Italian town planners and it was eventually readopted in 2004. Although the continuity with the original plan was emphatically celebrated, it was as a matter of fact altered in some of its vital elements. The change meant much more than a simple legal arrangement, necessary to readopt the plan. This essay follows the events at the base of the revocation sentence, and it detects the interests and concerns, why the Secchi-Viganò plan was deprived of life and significance. An opportunity for a new consideration about the limits of the plan, the relationship between public and private concerns, and between town planning and architecture.

Keywords: Brescia, urban plan, urban planning-architecture, urban design.

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Giulio Lupo, Barbara Badiani, Autopsia di un Prg. Il Piano regolatore Secchi-Viganò di Brescia in "ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI" 96/2009, pp 5-49, DOI: 10.3280/ASUR2009-096001