Sustainable Urban Development: From Theory to Concrete Practice”, in “Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Sustainable Economic Growth and Regional Development
The concept of participation in sustainable urban development practices is actually more and more
popular in Europe and all over the world. In parallel, there is a rapid growth of urban design and planning
projects including local communities in urban development planning activities. According to such
concepts, this chapter, starting from the description of the results of field and desk researches carried
out by ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome and related to communities involvement strategies currently