The question is what remains in the urban planning and in our professional and intellectual experiences of Giuseppe Campos Venuti and Federico Oliva? What about discipline now?
They reasoned and worked together, they proposed urban plans and organized technical offices, and now they are gone, but their legacy lies in the contributions they have spread throughout plans, conferences, magazines and books.
Campos Venuti and Oliva worked on planning, believing in social services, ecology, infrastructures as tools to build towns without suburbs, towns made up of centralities. Those who, therefore, have found in their words and actions the stimulus and strength to operate as planners and to engage in politics with the conviction of being able to make a contribution to freedom, equality and brotherhood in the territory, are the witnesses aware of their thinking.
La domanda è cosa resta nell'urbanistica e nelle nostre esperienze professionali e intellettuali di Giuseppe Campos Venuti e Federico Oliva? E la disciplina adesso?
Hanno ragionato e lavorato insieme, hanno proposto piani urbanistici e organizzato uffici tecnici, e ora non ci sono più, ma la loro eredità sta nei contributi che hanno diffuso attraverso piani, conferenze, riviste e libri.
Campos Venuti e Oliva hanno lavorato sulla pianificazione, credendo nei servizi sociali, nell'ecologia, nelle infrastrutture come strumenti per costruire città senza periferia, città fatte di centralità. Coloro che, dunque, hanno trovato nelle loro parole e nelle loro azioni lo stimolo e la forza per operare come urbanisti e per impegnarsi in politica con la convinzione di poter dare un contributo alla libertà, all'uguaglianza e alla fratellanza sul territorio, sono i testimoni consapevoli del loro pensiero.
Thank you very much for your letter about the memory Giuseppe Campos Venuti and Federico Oliva
Thank you, rather, many thanks. What do you think about their works? I wish to find memories and ideas that they can advance their theoretical and practical proposals.
In the Spanish case, the influence of Campos Venuti (and his Urbanistica e austerità) was huge in the Spanish municipal plans of the 1980s, undertaken by the first democratic city councils for cities that had to correct enormous deficits of public facilities, infrastructure, urbanisation or housing, inherited from the dictatorship. In the 1985 Madrid Plan he was directly involved. In other cases, like Valencia, Málaga or Santiago de Compostela, his ideas had a strong influence.
https://valenciaplaza.com/el-desconocido-libro-que-cambio-la-historia-de-valencia
A book on this Plan of Madrid was recently published. Three articles, contained in this book, written by Joan Roger Goncé, Beatriz Fernández Águeda and Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado clarify several aspects about the relationship between Campos Venuti and Spain.
https://www.coam.org/media/Default%20Files/fundacion/biblioteca/donativo%20instituciones%20editoriales/2019/el-urbanismo-de-la-transicion.pdf
Otherwise, Federico Oliva colaborated for many years in the journal Ciudad y Territorio of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works and Urbanism.
https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/search/search?query=federico%20oliva&searchJournal=351&authors=&title=&abstract=&galleyFullText=&discipline=&subject=&type=&coverage=&indexTerms=&dateFromMonth=&dateFromDay=&dateFromYear=&dateToMonth=&dateToDay=&dateToYear=&orderBy=score&orderDir=desc&searchPage=1#results
The relation between Italian and Spanish urbanism was very intense and fruitful since those years. Proof of this are the different tributes celebrated in the Club de Debates Urbanos de Madrid to figures like Francesco Indovina or Bernardo Secchi.
Dear Javier González,
how nice to receive an answer in these slightly melancholy days, a real gift, all the more precious as it is full of content.
I certainly need to know and deepen what you report, of which I only knew a small part. I think it is important to put together the many pieces that make up the theory of urban reformism because they not only stay together in coherence, but precisely because they have an intrinsic strength in their ability to adapt to individual realities, where the political ability to govern urban processes and the ability to listen to society, especially listening to those who are less represented, are combined in different proportions.
That Eighties momentum needs to be revived and strengthened: we still need it. I don't think Campos Venuti and Oliva can be accused of ever having been demagogues, or of having succumbed to pessimism.
I believe, for what my testimony is worth, that their commitment should and can help to believe that in the possibility that urban planning helps social emancipation in the area.
Without ever stopping to fight for it.
Thanks.
Luca
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