Uploaded on 2014-11-22 by Ivannasmoretti

1. The three most important stocks and flows entering, staying in and eventually leaving in my city are: **Historical monuments** – Turin’s History is a fascinating one. No other cities in Italy have gone through such a transformation like this one. Due to its location it has been an important strategic, political, and commercial crossroads. It is a city with a protective barrier surrounded by Alps to the West, Hills to the East and four rivers that pass through. It went from a small square medieval town surrounded by walls (8,400 inhabitants) in the early 16th century to a luxurious Baroque Capital city of the Savoy State expanding outside its original medieval walls (43,806 inhabitants) in the early 18th century to an industrial city in the late 19th century and finally to a commercial and cultural city by the 20th and 21st century. Due to its many transformation very little of its medieval origins are not present now-a-days. This can be considered as a flow where medieval buildings/elements will soon disappear completely from the city that it was once before. As Emanuel Filibert moved the capital city of the Savoy State from Chambery to Turin, Turin slowly turned into a baroque town, causing the erection of many amazing baroque monuments that Turin has today making this an important stock because it defines Turin’s identity and the importance of the city. Turin is rich with these outstanding architecture and buildings. In 1970s there was an extreme crisis in Turin that causing a declination of the city with huge voids and abandon industrial buildings. Architects in 1983 started to transform the city from an industrial city to a commercial consumption city, production of goods and cultural activities for economic terms. They can use this stock of Turin’s history in order to attract tourists, new comers, and new enterprises to invest money. As the monument sculpture to Vincenzo Vela sculpting his Death of Napoleon in 1911 – it represents the mirroring of the past (Napoleon invades Turin in 1800) entering the future, where both periods watches the other. Turin was left with its incredible memorable history which in my opinion should not leave the city for the benefits of its future. **Water** – Water is an essential stock in a city. It is the first thing that a city needs in order to survive and grow, without any source of water there is no city. Turin has four rivers (Po, Dora, Stura, and Sangone). Unfortunately there have been causes of pollution in the water. The valley is subject to heavy smog due to industrial atmospheric emissions as Turin was once an industrial city and it is slowly moving outside. In 2005 it was found that Po contained a shocking amount of benzoylecgonine which is excreted by cocaine users in urine that feed into the river. In 2010 the Po river was contaminated by an oil spill coming from a plant in Villasanta (600,000 liters). With water being an important stock and flow in any city it is very important to have it under controlled and pollute free in the future because it is one of the things that the city needs to survive. In the year 2009 the water board initiated an Integrated River Basin Management Plan in agreement with the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive, 2000/60/EC. The plan includes many water management and flood risk plans already in place. Between 2009 until now-a-days the Po Valley Project (the implementation of the plan) will improve and strengthen dikes, increase natural preservation areas, recover sediment transport, recover hydromorphological characteristics, enlarge wetlands, afforest, promote biodiversity and promote recreational use. ![enter image description here][1] **People/Tourist** – As I mentioned before after the crisis in 1970s Turin was declining. As a way to increase population the city transformed from an old abandon industrial city to a commercial and cultural city. By 2009 Turin had reached a total of 910,188 inhabitants with a significant increase from 2001. This result is due to a growing immigration from Southern Italy and abroad. Approximately 13.5 per cent of the population is composed of foreigners, the largest numbers coming from Romania, Morocco, Albania, China, and Moldova. In recent years, Turin has become an increasingly popular tourist attraction, ranking 203rd in the world and 10th in Italy in 2008, with about 240,000 international arrivals. Turin’s commercial and cultural usage of Museums and Cinemas can benefit Turin’s future for economic reasons this is why it is am important stock and flow in Turin. ![enter image description here][2] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14166534634010826.jpg [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14166532776057899.jpg