ZEN (Palermo)
ZEN (abbreviation of Zona Espansione Nord , expansion zone north ), official name San Filippo Neri , is the 47th unit of the "Primo Livello di Palermo", a part of the municipality VII in the north of Palermo , in which about 16,000 inhabitants live.
The district, which was completed in the construction phases ZEN 1 and ZEN 2 with different construction features, consists largely of social housing . You can also find houses, service companies and handicraft shops there. Well-known buildings are the “Paolo Borsellino” velodrome and the “Conca d'Oro” shopping center. ZEN 2, which is divided from ZEN 1 by the church of S. Filippo Neri, was built in 1969 on the basis of the architect Vittorio Gregotti as part of the Palermitan IACP. The buildings are characterized by their special architectural structure (so-called " insulae "). The neighborhood was shaped by illegal squatting .
Today, like Corviale in Rome or Scampia in Naples , ZEN is a social hotspot . The neighborhood has a number of serious problems due to its particular construction. Above all, this includes severe social degradation, which is expressed in poverty, unemployment , a high school dropout rate , petty crime and infiltration by the mafia . Despite multiple protests by the media, the commitment of schools, religious institutions and volunteers, the situation in ZEN remains so alarming that the well-known architect Massimiliano Fuksas has urged, together with other similar metropolitan areas, to propose demolition.
ZEN is connected to Palermo by AMAT lines 614–619. In 1990, ZEN was the background of the socially critical film “Ragazzi Fuori” (Boys on the Outside) by Marco Risi.
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Notes individual evidence
- ^ Proposal for Urban Regeneration of the Suburb ZEN, Palermo, Italy. International Making Cities livable
- ^ Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari
- ^ Palermo, il fratello del boss della droga fa la spesa per lo Zen. April 8, 2020
literature
- Fava Ferdinando: Lo zen di Palermo. Antropologia dell'esclusione, introduction by Marc Augé. Franco Angeli Editore. Milan. 2008. ISBN 88-464-9567-5 .
- Badami Alessandra, Picone Marco and Schilleci Filippo: Città nell'emergenza. Progettare e costruire tra Gibellina e lo Zen. Palumbo Editore. Palermo. 2008 ISBN 88-6017-046-X .
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Coordinates: 38 ° 11 ′ N , 13 ° 19 ′ E