Geografie della memoria e zone di transizione: interpretare le possibilità future di salvaguardia dei legami territoriali a Delhi

Abstract

The future of the metropolis will be to increase in dimension and extension phagocyting territory, or it will be a moment where the things will start to change, in the collective and politic awareness, that it is necessary to absorb the concepts of limits and sustainability? It seems that the global economic turns have already alerted the sensitive minds towards a necessary change of the course of the urban governance. It is not possible to ignore longer, the transformations, sometime very dangerous, in our cities, todays. Rather it is necessary try to addressed them in a time crossing, capable of understanding the importance of the collective memory, attracting the proper engramma to build new anthropological, cultural and social relations. Specifically the paper would like analyze the reality of the city of Delhi, the Indian capital, disclosing the existences, on its body, of some territorial boundaries. Zones where it is possible to find and to recognize tracks of its ancient rural origins made by crafts and agricultural artisan, clay ovens and cultivated lands. This soul of the city, made by memories, knowledges and territorial relations was menaced, on the last years, from the blind wish of expansions of unscrupulous businessman and from decisions not capillary monitored relatively to urban development plans, which have had unpredictable consequences for the territory and for the environment. After the end of the expectations created from the Commonwealth Games, on 2010, the city developed an infrastructural net more quick, promoting the use of the public transports and creating an underground net very efficient, initial assumption to regain its former glory of green city. Over these new infrastructural potentialities also the connective tissues, between area and area and the big zones of urban green, like gardens, parks and forests, they had great potential in themselves to make Delhi one of the most competitive capital of the future.To realize this visions it is necessary to create vocabularies, roads and languages, capable of suggesting the development of new models of urban settlements mainly on the sensitive zones, where it will happen the encounter between urban and rural.