The project for the new city of Guastalla achieved all the objectives and constraints identified during the analysis phase. The ancient lines of Guastalla, designed by Giunti and Volterra are resumed and completed, it will became a Renaissance citadel or a "cité universitaire" and its perpendicular centrai arms, designed by the Volterra, will continue and connect the whole city and the system of Cispadane. The study of the ancient documentation and the drafting of semiologies and visibility showed the need to rely on Roman Centuriatio which harmonized at the best all the design aspects. The Roman Centuriatio its contaminateci by other urban concept creating a "melting pot of design". The rigid Roman Centuriatio was broken by other references such as the Etoile in Paris, the La Brea Park of Los Angeles or the Oiagonals of Barcelona. This breakings permitt us to have a better structure of the city, shifting functions and important urbanization and finally can create green wedges that protects from the traffic and improve the overall quality of the urban environment. Besides having green wedges there are green strips parallel to the cardo which fulfilling the standards and a large urban park with recreational and religious functions that protects the city from the railroad.
THE GREEN SYSTEM
There is an important presence (and study) of green. To prevent urban development to the Golena Protected Park there are large productive wooded areas. The main arteries break the urban grid creating green wedges. The city is crossed from north to south by 6 bands of green that performs the standard. The south-east host the large park that endoses the sports, recreational and religious functions and acts as a filter against the railway. The city and the citè are endosed by a green belt that takes its cue from the existing necessary embankment, marking a border permeable to the landscape and offers a pleasant walk, the variations of altitude allow, in some places, to have view aver the city and the surrounding countryside.
Stefano Storchi, "Guastalla città dei Gonzaga e dei Borbone", a cura dell'Amministrazione Comunale, 1982.
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