Aldo Rossi

If it were not for the fact that we know that the new patrons have an advertising man lodged in their brains, one might think that the contest called “Sotto Napoli” is just a superfluous amusement. Without digging deep underground, Naples has more than enough convening power and has, also, such a quantity and variety of functional disorders that they have become a perverse attraction of its personality. As a test bed for urban planning remedies, Naples could not be better: whoever succeeds in bringing order to the largest historic center in the world will deserve to eclipse the brilliance of the highest figures of urban planning, Haussmann and Cerdá included...[+]