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Charter for a New Municipium
- For a bottom-up, not hierarchical globalisation centred on
solidarity - English version |
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Charte de la Nouvelle Commune
- Pour une mondialisation à partir de la base, solidaire et
non hiérarchique - French Version |
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Carta del Nuovo Municipio -
Per una globalizzazione dal basso, solidale e non gerarchica
- Italian version |
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Carta do Novo Municipio - Para
uma globalização a partir da base, solidária e não hierárquica
- Portuguese version |
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Carta del Nuevo Municipio -
Para una globalización a partir de la base, solidaria y no jerárquica
- Spanish version |
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Charter for a New Municipium
For a bottom-up, not hierarchical globalisation centred on solidarity
(promoters: A.Magnaghi, G.Paba, G.Allegretti, M.Giusti e C.Perrone,
University of Florence; G.Ferraresi, A.Calori, Politecnico di Milano;
A.Tarozzi, University of di Bologna; A.Marson, Istituto Universitario
di Architettura Venezia; E.Scandurra, S.Macchi, University of Rome
"La Sapienza"; A.Giangrande e E.Mortola, Università di Roma III)
The "Charter for a new municipium", promoted by a group of
Italian planning teachers and researchers, is addressed to local
elected and civic officers. The Charter has been thought as an instrument
to open the discussion on local development perspectives and experiences
as strategic alternatives to "long-range networks" dominance in
a world-wide market, with reference to European countries and more
specifically Italy.
The document has now been signed by several authorities, mayors
and scholars and has been presented in many international meetings
to be implemented and diffused.
Most of all, the Charter has been presented in Porto Alegre, as
a contribution to the world discussion on bottom-up globalization.
The Charter has been in fact submitted to the II
Forum of Local Authorities for the Social Inclusion, held
from January 28th to 30th in Porto Alegre, a meeting of governors
and representatives of cities and regions from 29 countries . The
aim of the forum was to face the challenge of providing political
and administrative substantiation to the anti-exclusion speech,
defining a concept of government for social inclusion, to guide
the public policies and administrative conduct to breed social inclusion
in the cities, based on the recognition of cultural, political and
economical differences of various regions of the planet.
The Charter has been discussed also in the following workshop "Local
self-sustainable development: new municipalities’ roles and tasks
and the valorisation of local actors’ social networks for a bottom-up
globalization" held during the II
World Social Forum ( Porto Alegre - 31 January - 5 February
2002). The workshop was specifically aimed to implement the "Charter
for a new municipium" with practical proposals for encouraging:
- new direct forms of democracy;
- new welfare indicators;
- new local self-sustainable economies;
- forms of local heritage valorisation;
- fair and co-operative networks.
The promoters of the Charter are now still working on all the suggestions
collected during these and others public forums and will present
soon an updated version of the work-in-progress document.
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