Ricerc@Sapienza

The research aims to identify theoretical-methodological and operational references that address the relationship between contemporary city and historical-cultural components of the territory, with particular reference to archaeological areas, within an innovative territorial government framework based on an integrated approach. The contemporary city, result of metropolisation processes, is dotted with spaces alienated from their context, in the face of the presence of boundaries, both regulatory and physical, that control their transformation, valorisation and interaction, imposed by protection and conservation policies. Between the space and time that we could define as fixed in these boundaries, and the dynamic and constantly evolving space of contemporary territories, interferences and reactions are governed by an artificial physical discontinuity. The subtraction of that areas from their state of places separated from the city, in order to restore a broader use and structure, seems necessary to address the territorial palimpsest as a whole expression of cultural identity, through an organic strategy extended to all its parts. An integrated and inter-scalar urban regeneration strategy, with structural/strategic and operational tools that, by defragmenting urban and territorial systems, identify archaeological areas as emblematic places of quality, to be considered as possible new centralities, pursuing a heritage-led development. Based on innovative management and governance models, inter-institutional and partnership-based, in consistent with the regulatory framework.

The research is divided into 3 phases: the first for a critical-interpretive contextualisation of phenomena and approaches, the second and third with a methodological-operational and propositive nature, supported by the study of best practices and the experimentation of a pilot case, for the definition and evaluation of the theoretical-methodological and operational references.