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...shift alarms the Christian Democrats, who fear that the Turin pattern is spreading across Italy like an oil stain and could even undermine the shaky national government's center-left coalition. Few citizens of the affected cities and regions appear to be concerned. One reason is that the new Communist officials could scarcely be more inept than the bumbling moderates they will replace. In Turin, for instance, one official of a previous Christian Democratic administration spent large sums to lay down a set of streetcar tracks; they were immediately paved over when another official declared the street...
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...
...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 difficult. The mayor wants to give streetcars and buses priority over automobiles, a heretical idea in the Detroit of Italy-Fiat is by far the city...
...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...
...Turin's capitalists have been cautiously neutral toward the new administration. Former Christian Democratic Mayor Giovanni Porcellana, who looks forward to leading a "regenerative opposition," admits that "so far [the Communists] sound like Northern European Social Democrats." A lot of Italians will put the emphasis on that...