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This paper deals with the interactions between biophysical and microclimatic factors
on the one hand with, on the other, the urban morphology of intermediate urban open spaces,
the relationship between environmental and bioclimatic thermal comfort, and the implementation of
innovative materials and the use of greenery, aimed at the users’ well-being. In particular, the thermal
comfort of the open spaces of the consolidated fabrics of the city of Rome is studied, by carrying

This paper investigates the public space urban regeneration within the cultural processes established among urban planners, architects, artists, public administrations, and local communities in renewed national and international policies. In recent decades such policies have outlined new interest and innovative impulses on the topic of creativity, expanding the concept and placing it at the core of more general territorial development policies.

El programa formativo de esta experiencia ha sido elaborado de manera conjunta, para valorar la calidad de lo aprendido por
los alumnos en las dos Escuelas y otorgar al proyecto de Tesis de Laurea el carácter de un proyecto integrador de las diversas
escalas de la arquitectura.
Los resultados arrojan una particular sensibilidad hacia los valores patrimoniales, así como un desarrollo coherente desde las

In Europa il fenomeno della deindustrializzazione ha determinato a partire dagli anni ’80, opportunità e urgenza di rigenerazione per i siti industriali dismessi. Quando avviene il riconoscimento di patrimonio industriale è possibile riscontrare diverse strategie messe felicemente in atto, che si avvalgono di misure a volte contrastanti.

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.

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.