Word: novelli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosario Berardi, 52, was killed, shot seven times while waiting for a streetcar. A phone call from the Red Brigades promised that a woman juror would be next. Four defense lawyers abruptly resigned, and the trial was postponed again. Would it resume? Yes, declared Turin's mayor, Diego Novelli. "This is the only real answer that democracy can give...
Orderly Growth. Turin's new mayor can only hope to be equally effective in revitalizing his city. In his inaugural speech last week, Novelli called on fellow citizens of all political hues to join him in "a great experiment in urban reconstruction." It will not be an easy chore. In Bologna, growth was orderly and the population remained homogeneous. Turin, on the other hand, was barely able to cope with Italy's postwar economic miracle. As southern migrants rushed to Turin's factory jobs, the city grew by half a million people in the years between...
...city grew haphazardly as speculators, darting through loopholes in the zoning laws, did most of the building. Classrooms are so scarce that some city schools operate on triple shifts. Traffic is so chaotic that it takes some workers five hours to get to and from their jobs. Novelli intends to streamline and reduce the municipal bureaucracy; he also wants to add 2,000 new classrooms and improve housing. Financing all this will be hard because recession hit Turin heavily. Today unemployment is up 25% from a year ago and is still rising as further cutbacks loom. Transportation will be especially...
...hedge row we called the Vialle dei Sederi ["Bottom Boulevard"] because of the great row of buttocks of people sitting there talking. Nowadays Piazza Sabotino looks like the track at Le Mans-no trees, no benches, just traffic and the chaotic sameness of the rest of the city." Someday Novelli, in what may be his most radical plan, also wants to expropriate idle land across the Po from Turin and convert it into a massive municipal park...
...part, Novelli insists that "we're not out to Bolshevize Turin." He describes himself primarily as a concerned Torinese rather than a dogmatic Marxist. "I've been to Moscow several times," he says. "With all our problems here, I'd still rather live in Turin...