LED 2016 Group D Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

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Variante di Mirandola: positive and negative aspects

Place name	Variante di Mirandola
Location	MIrandola (MO)
Country	Italy
Author(s)	Elena Forapani

Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar?

• Why is this case relevant?
• The Variante di Mirandola is an alternative to a portion of the Strada Statale 12 -road that connect Modena to the border with Austria. It is a new road (2012) built even the disagreement of large part of citizen. The variant is a facultative road that avoid the trucks, traveller and also the dwellers to cross Mirandola -my hometown- reducing the travel time and the traffic in the city centre. The main habitant objection was about the position of this street. Infact the project would not care from the beginning to cut in half fields, private properties and also other streets. Underpass and overpass were built to connect the two separated part of land but they are in strong contrast with the landscape. Big blocks of concrete stand next to a rich vegetation causing demage to the agricolture and the wildlife.

Representation of your observations

• you are basically free to use one or a mix of different presentation techniques
• possibilities are: analytical drawings, graphical representations, collages, video clips, comic/graphic novel, written essay/visual essay
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Reflection

What are the major challenges for changing the situation?

• It is quite hard to change the situation becuase the people how benefit this new road are more than aspected, but in the future the community must be more partecipant to such important decision taken by the leaders of our region. We must protect our environment and be more partecipant to this kind of decision proposing variation and changes to the starting project. We should create an iterative sistem of collaboration between the citizen, stakeholders and entrepreneurs or politicians for what concern common areas most important decision.

What could be a starting point for democractically-based change?

• Please add approx. 150 words in essay style

References

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• Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.
• Do not use any images of which you do not hold the copyright.
• Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.

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