Giuseppe Mascia: «A city that is accessible and liveable for everyone is fairer, usable and welcoming»
«The Sassari that we like is a city accessible and liveable by everyone». This is the challenge launched today by Giuseppe Mascia, candidate for mayor of Sassari for the wide field. «A challenge oriented towards the future but to be achieved in the present», as Mascia said speaking in the Angioy room of the Provincial Palace, in Piazza d’Italia, at the discussion promoted by the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Sassari to talk about disability and context urban starting from the book “The city of the present”, which collects information, advice and suggestions «which we will take into account during the process of adopting Peba, the Plan for the elimination of architectural barriers of the Municipality of Sassari, as quickly as possible», assured the leader of the Democratic Party.
Giuseppe Mascia: «A city that is accessible and liveable for everyone is fairer, usable and welcoming»
«A city tailored to each individual person is more fair, usable and welcoming – this is the vision promoted by Mascia during his speech – taking into account different abilities represents the opportunity to achieve the change that the community expects through the redefinition of public spaces and their function”. Professor and contract researcher at the University of Sassari, cultural operator, musician, the provincial secretary of the dem announced that
«a renewed and inclusive city is the idea we intend to discuss with the associations that represent, protect and promote the rights of people with disabilities». Today’s was only the first stage, in short, of a path that has three primary objectives: the adoption of Peba, in fact, but also «the request to the Sardinia Region to guarantee the Municipalities greater funds to be granted to private individuals for interventions of eliminating architectural barriers – concludes Mascia – and the verification through the Mof, i.e. the monitoring of financing opportunities, of possible further contributions for the removal of obstacles that oppose that change for Sassari of which we want to be the interpreters».
