CARACAS: UN TEJIDO DE ACERAS RENOVABLES / CARACAS: A RENEWABLE SIDEWALK FABRIC

Las aceras son esa pretensión oficial de imponer un orden a nuestro andar. La ciudad se construye a partir de un andamiaje de la conducta urbana, que no es más que la orientación normativa para que la gente circule distribuyendo mecánicamente sus aspiraciones y necesidades entre los accesos a los ministerios, la bodeguita, el Metro, el quiosco, los centros comerciales.
Las aceras son como estratos venosos que entretejen en kilómetros de pasadizos forzosos nuestra condición de urbanitas sodomizados.

Pero no solo son algo que está allí para que pasemos. Es también una esfera de poder. Han movido las pasiones patrias, los desvaríos ideológicos y claro, las ambiciones económicas. Ya quisiéramos lo que reclamaba Howard en 1896 para los nuevos expertos: “demostrar que la arquitectura, por ser el arte de poner el paisaje al servicio del bienestar colectivo, puede ser en estos tiempos de crecimiento de las ciudades a expensa del campo, el único medio de conservar activos los vínculos fundamentales entre los hombres y su tierra”.
Ya en 1766 el obispo Diez Madroñero quiso cambiar los nombres de las calles, asimilándolas a los pasajes de la devoción: Encarnación del hijo de Dios, Del dulce nombre de Jesús, Del nacimiento del niño de Dios. Eso quedó en el pasado pero sobreviven vestigios como la calle de La Amargura, en Antímano.

Un célebre intento por apropiarse de la ciudad e imponer una transformación en el paisaje, fue el de 1876, cuando Arístides Rojas y Cesáreo Rojas propusieron un cambio de toponimias que acabara con la fea costumbre de llamar a las esquinas por nombres “inauditos”. Se decidió entonces identificar las calles aledañas a la plaza Bolívar de acuerdo con la posición en la que se encontraban con respecto a los puntos cardinales que indicaba el monumento: avenida Norte 2, avenida Este 7, Oeste 11. Algunas sobreviven.
Durante el gobierno de Claudio Fermín (AD), alcalde de la capital venezolana entre 1989 y 1993, estalló un escándalo público que aún lo identifica en el imaginario de la ciudad por la malversación de fondos en la construcción de aceras por un monto de 5 mil Millones de Bs., una obra que se pospuso, se operó mal y finalmente nunca se concretó según el plan.

Recientemente sorprendió a los caraqueños el Plan Caracas para el embellecimiento de la ciudad, un intento por refrescar el rostro de la Sultana del Waraira Repano que quiso embellecer las márgenes del centro para finalmente dejarlas hechas retazos.

Otra catástrofe urbana emergió con otro plan, el de mantenimiento correctivo y preventivo Caracas Juntos, que desplegó piquetes de obreros a lo largo y ancho de las avenidas Universidad, México, Sucre, Paseo Los Ilustres, llevándose por el medio un extenso tramo de aceras vaciadas en mármol rosado portugués entre las estaciones del Metro La Hoyada y Parque Carabobo, y un extenso tramo de ciclovía inaugurado apenas en 2016.

El alboroto constructor de la urbe, donde se cocinan las más altas aspiraciones financieras, ha dado paso a unas aceras hechas a tiros inconexos, sin ninguna continuidad estética o arquitectónica, como cuando los portugueses y canarios venidos en oleadas migratorias a mediados del siglo XX decidieron recubrir sus viviendas de baldosas multicolores como evidencia de su rápida prosperidad, los ranchos amurallaron las laderas pobres con migrantes que se fueron detrás de aquel hombre a caballo, y los ricos establecieron sus villas barrocas sobre el frescor del valle diáfano.

“De tan intrincada controversia de intereses, la nueva Caracas va surgiendo como una ciudad improvisada, hecha para satisfacer pequeños caprichos y ambiciones, no verdaderas necesidades”. No lo decía alguien de “mala fe” sino un caraqueño que por sobre todas las cosas amaba a esta ciudad: Aquiles Nazoa.

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The sidewalks are that official pretension of imposing an order to our walking. The city is built from a scaffolding of urban behavior, which is nothing more than the normative orientation for people to circulate mechanically distributing their aspirations and needs among the accesses to the ministries, the bodeguita, the Metro, the kiosk, the shopping malls.
The sidewalks are like venous strata that weave in kilometers of forced passageways our condition of sodomized urbanites.

But they are not only something that is there for us to pass through. They are also a sphere of power. They have moved patriotic passions, ideological ravings and, of course, economic ambitions. We would like what Howard demanded in 1896 for the new experts: "to demonstrate that architecture, being the art of placing the landscape at the service of the collective welfare, can be in these times of growth of the cities at the expense of the countryside, the only means of preserving active the fundamental links between men and their land".
Already in 1766 the bishop Diez Madroñero wanted to change the names of the streets, assimilating them to the passages of the devotion: Incarnation of the Son of God, Of the Sweet Name of Jesus, Of the Birth of the Child of God. That was left in the past, but vestiges survive, such as the street of La Amargura, in Antímano.

A famous attempt to appropriate the city and impose a transformation in the landscape was made in 1876, when Arístides Rojas and Cesáreo Rojas proposed a change of toponymy that would put an end to the ugly custom of calling street corners by "unheard of" names. It was then decided to identify the streets around the Bolivar Square according to their position in relation to the cardinal points indicated by the monument: North Avenue 2, East Avenue 7, West Avenue 11.
During the government of Claudio Fermín (AD), mayor of the Venezuelan capital between 1989 and 1993, a public scandal broke out that still identifies him in the imaginary of the city due to the embezzlement of funds in the construction of sidewalks for an amount of 5 billion Bs.

Recently, the Caracas Plan for the beautification of the city surprised the people of Caracas, an attempt to refresh the face of the Sultan of the Waraira Repano, who wanted to beautify the margins of the city center to finally leave them in tatters.

Another urban catastrophe emerged with another plan, the corrective and preventive maintenance plan Caracas Juntos, which deployed pickets of workers along the length and breadth of the avenues Universidad, Mexico, Sucre, Paseo Los Ilustres, taking in the middle an extensive stretch of sidewalks emptied in Portuguese pink marble between the Metro stations La Hoyada and Parque Carabobo, and an extensive stretch of bike path inaugurated only in 2016.

The construction hype of the city, where the highest financial aspirations are cooked, has given way to sidewalks made in disjointed shots, without any aesthetic or architectural continuity, as when the Portuguese and Canary Islanders who came in migratory waves in the mid-twentieth century decided to cover their homes with multicolored tiles as evidence of their rapid prosperity, the ranchos walled off the poor hillsides with migrants who went after that man on horseback, and the rich established their baroque villas on the coolness of the diaphanous valley.
"From such an intricate controversy of interests, the new Caracas is emerging as an improvised city, made to satisfy small whims and ambitions, not real needs". This was not said by someone in "bad faith" but by a Caracas native who above all things loved this city: Aquiles Nazoa.
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The people doing V2K with remote neural monitoring want me to believe this lady @battleaxe is an operator. She is involved deeply with her group and @fyrstikken . Her discord is Battleaxe#1003. I cant prove she is the one directly doing the V2K and RNM. Doing it requires more than one person at the least. It cant be done alone. She cant prove she is not one of the ones doing it. I was drugged in my home covertly, it ended badly. They have tried to kill me and are still trying to kill me. I bet nobody does anything at all. Ask @battleaxe to prove it. I bet she wont. They want me to believe the V2K and RNM in me is being broadcast from her location. And what the fuck is "HOMELAND SECURITY" doing about this shit? I think stumbling over their own dicks maybe? Just like they did and are doing with the Havana Syndrome.
They are reckless and should have shown the proper media what they had before taking me hostage for 5 years.
What would you say while having a gun pointed at your head from an undisclosed location? Have people find it? My hands are tied while they play like children with a gun to my head. Its a terrorist act on American soil while some yawn and say its not real or Im a mental case. Many know its real. This is an ignored detrimental to humanity domestic threat. Ask informed soldiers in the American military what their oath is and tell them about the day you asked me why. Nobody has I guess. Maybe someone told ill informed soldiers they cant protect America from military leaders in control with ill intent. How do we protect locked up soldiers from telling the truth? https://ecency.com/fyrstikken/@fairandbalanced/i-am-the-only-motherfucker-on-the-internet-pointing-to-a-direct-source-for-voice-to-skull-electronic-terrorism
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