Todi is nothing special
Oh so famous Todi…. While I was doing research previous to my trip, I’ve read of course that Todi “is the most livable city in the whole world”. But….. as it is so often with “best, only, highest, greatest” (almost Chinese-like words), a bit of deeper research unveils the truth: this was nothing more than a huge and obviously successful marketing gag (and I had to work hard not to write marketing lie).The facts were, as one can read in the article I’ve added below, that indeed architect and expert on sustainability Professor Richard Levine of University of Kentucky did a survey on many cities and villages worldwide and how their structures might lead to improvements of our today’s cities. He was invited to give a speech at a conference in Todi and a very much inventive PR guy twisted and warped the professor’s words into the famous words that started to spread around the world. As a...
