Giardini di Plastica

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Giardini di Plastica (Plastic Gardens)
Giardini Baltimora (Baltimora Gardens)
Via del Colle
Genoa, April 2016

“Between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the area of the centro storico known as Via Madre di Dio was razed to the ground and replaced with a modernist conglomerate of office buildings known as Centro dei Liguri. Immediately by pushers and heroin addicts, the adjacent park was dubbed ‘Giardini di Plastica’ (Plastic Gardens) and proactively avoided by everybody else.” (Introduction, Creative Urbanity)