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The Italian government of the territory is regulated by an urban planning law dating back to 1942, designed to regulate and plan the urban growth and expansion of the post-war. Over the decades this law has insisted almost unchanged on any attempt to adapt it to the changing socio-economic context and has become an instrument for the protection of land and real estate income.

In the shrinking city (Oswald, 2005) a new nostalgia is born: that for the archeology of the industrial artifact, yesterday domineering and inaccessible, today naïve and primitive, inserted in an urban landscape of which it could have a decisive role. The blossom of different spontaneous and cultural actions aimed at urban recycle seems to be today the presupposition of an advancement in design culture, giving multiple answers to the crisis of the large systems (Ciorra, 2011) and opening up a new frontier of discourse on the city.

This paper proposes an enquiry on the temporary use experience of the Dumbo Space in Bologna, whose first results constitute a test bench for the more general orientations expressed on this topic by the policies of the Emilia Romagna region. The recent regional urban planning law (Law n. 24 of 2017), has introduced, for the first time in Italy, a regulatory instrument of temporary uses, considered as alternative practices to an urban planning policy which has always been over-regulated (Gabellini, 2019, p. 35).

Socially useful landscapes” gathers the results of a research work carried on by DIAP Department of Architecture and Design, “Sapienza” University of Rome for the Regione Lazio, and committed to social marginalization issues or, more specifically, to the spaces and the stakeholders involved into the counter-actions to stop its rise.

Il contributo si colloca all’interno delle attività di ricerca nazionale e internazionale che le autrici stanno affrontando da anni sul tema delle politiche abitative e dell’inclusione sociale avviate, in diversi contesti insediativi, nell’ambito delle più ampie strategie di rigenerazione urbana promosse dalle amministrazioni locali.

An appealing city, if we assume that the concept of beauty goes beyond purely aesthetic limits, it’s first and above all a city where people live well. It is an “adequate city”, capable of communicating adequacy (the concept of "adequacy" is used in the general-holistic sense that the philosopher Lucacks attributed to it in the treatise on Aesthetics). It’s a healthy city, that can promote virtuous lifestyles, allowing as many people as possible to spend their lives in fullness and satisfaction over time and in good health.

The European Union aims at the zeroing of the soil consumption by 2050. Among the short-term strategies outlined by the member States of the European Commission, the highest potentialities concern the recovery of the existing building assets, in particular of the abandoned areas. The regeneration of these properties, however, involves considerable costs and high risks, and therefore it almost always requires the activation of a public-private partnership and the negotiation of the solutions to be implemented.

Lo scritto introduce il lettore ai progetti presenti nel libro "UnLost Territories Ricostruire la periferia a Roma Architettura e società nei territori abbandonati", trasportandolo attraverso un viaggio nell'area di intervento, la periferia sud-est di Roma.

L’emergenza casa rappresenta a Roma uno dei temi più urgenti ed improrogabili. La crescita urbana degli ultimi decenni, unita alla speculazione edilizia che ha caratterizzato la trasformazione del territorio romano, ha inasprito il fenomeno della povertà abitativa.

La dialettica orizzontalità/verticalità costituisce un ambito strategico di grande importanza per il futuro del progetto, imponendo una riflessione sulla condensazione delle funzioni urbane e sugli approcci metodologici per la crescita delle città e coinvolge molteplici tematiche della contemporaneità, proprie degli attuali processi di trasformazione del territorio quali, ad esempio, la densità, la compattezza e la sensibilità al consumo di suolo.