Ricerc@Sapienza

Nowadays the urban regeneration is the main tool through which the Italian Regions strive for the limitation of land consumption. This new objective for planning is not only a way of balancing different general interests, but it is becoming a benchmark for social, economic, and cultural interests too. The essay examines the concrete samples of the urban regeneration in Italy by comparing those coming from the Regional legislators with the ones based on civic initiatives. The author underlines both positive aspects and negative sides of them both.

Over time, the idea that the regeneration of the world’s residual, intermediate suburban spaces plays a strategic role in testing new models of participatory processes has gradually taken hold. Cohesion, inclusiveness, sharing and integration are the basis of such processes. They are the concepts that lie at the heart of the documents produced at an international level over the past 30 years, particularly the 2030 New Urban Agenda, as the five ‘P’s: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.