In Turin, after the Restoration, the town administration gradually moves the attention toward east, beyond the Po. The river assumed a new meaning for the city: from being a physical barrier to being a natural connection between the urban pattern and the hilly landscape. From the center of the city, piazza Castello, crossing the strada di Po, the square built according to the laws of the first years of the Restoration can be reached. The hill was absorbed as quarter forehead: the city welcomed the suburban greenery as natural scenography. In the 1850s the aim of the municipally, with regard to the boundary between city and nature, was only one: to establish an systematic parceling plan which must include and take into account the historical monuments (Santa Maria al Monte dei Cappuccini, villa della Regina e the Gran Madre di Dio church) and the scattered architectural pattern. The streets network held the delicate position of link and comparison between these elements, guaranteeing the privileged perspectives offered by the suburb along the river. The traces of the debate between politicians and professionals are preserved in the Archivio Storico della Città di Torino, their analysis can help to understand the events of an urban district characterized by the green landscape of the hill.

Torino. Borgo Po: le architetture, il fiume e la collina / Pozzati, Alice. - ELETTRONICO. - Delli Aspetti de Paesi Vecchi e nuovi Media per l’Immagine del Paesaggio, TOMO PRIMO Costruzione, descrizione, identità storica:(2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Vecchi e nuovi media per l'immagine del paesaggio tenutosi a Napoli nel 27-29 ottobre 2016).

Torino. Borgo Po: le architetture, il fiume e la collina

Alice Pozzati
2016

Abstract

In Turin, after the Restoration, the town administration gradually moves the attention toward east, beyond the Po. The river assumed a new meaning for the city: from being a physical barrier to being a natural connection between the urban pattern and the hilly landscape. From the center of the city, piazza Castello, crossing the strada di Po, the square built according to the laws of the first years of the Restoration can be reached. The hill was absorbed as quarter forehead: the city welcomed the suburban greenery as natural scenography. In the 1850s the aim of the municipally, with regard to the boundary between city and nature, was only one: to establish an systematic parceling plan which must include and take into account the historical monuments (Santa Maria al Monte dei Cappuccini, villa della Regina e the Gran Madre di Dio church) and the scattered architectural pattern. The streets network held the delicate position of link and comparison between these elements, guaranteeing the privileged perspectives offered by the suburb along the river. The traces of the debate between politicians and professionals are preserved in the Archivio Storico della Città di Torino, their analysis can help to understand the events of an urban district characterized by the green landscape of the hill.
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