Ricerc@Sapienza

Contemporary urban planning is nowadays getting involved into thematic related with the slow and unceasing city transformations. This circumstance highlights the need for overcoming the sectoral approach to urban complexity, in favor of a more integrated one. The context to which reference is made is the urban area; the challenge is about the adaptation to the physical, social and economic transformations; the intervention tool to which the contribution refers is that of Urban Project.

Contemporary urban planning is nowadays getting involved into thematics related with the slow and unceasing city
transformations. This circumstance, highlights the need for overcoming the sectoral approach to urban complexity, in favor of a
more integrated one (Macciocco, 2015), but at the same time it also shows the great opportunity of making a sustainable change,
from a polysemic point of view, in the urban transformation and regeneration strategies which involve contemporary cities and
territories.