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5. The architect sara seravalle and the engineer Dario Colozza also participated in the
research.
6. Recently (December 2011), the municipal authorities were authorizing, or had already
authorized, the construction of sixteen more large “business parks.”
7. more precisely, porta di Roma was the shopping center “most visited in italy” in 2008,
with 16.4 million visitors.
8. for example, the numerous car parks are all situated underground, and there is a pedes-
trian entrance that reflects the search for an important and suitable link with the neighboring
district.
9. porta di Roma has 7,000 parking spaces, which provide a lot of parking when added to
the service roads, but not enough for the weekend. when this happens, the overflow of cars
leads to parking right on the orbital motorway.
10. i will not dwell on the modalities of experiencing the shopping center, but refer the
reader to the texts on the subject and the ethnography that has been built up (Di lorenzo
2009); nor do i intend to pass a full judgment on shopping centers, which despite everything
have important elements of usefulness and economic advantages for families.
11. one balcony can overlook six to eight flats; one row of balconies, even with only one
french window, can also overlook six flats.
12. Note that there are now certain public services such as post offices and banks in the
shopping center.
13. These days, the big parks do not have many visitors (except for runners and joggers);
their size, bleak character, and distance from residential areas make them rather uninviting.
14. The perceived decrease in the dimensions of living accommodation and the very high
relative cost of accommodation has caused many residents to feel defrauded, or in more popu-
lar terms “ripped off.” it should be noted that residents in the nearby unlawful settlements
( Cinquina ), even though they are in a more logistically inconvenient area lacking local services
and indeed are seeking new accommodation, say that they would never move to bufalotta-
porta di Roma.
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