The research proposal is part of the international research activities that a Group of professors, researchers and scholars of the PDTA Department of Sapienza University of Rome has been carrying on for many years on the topic of contemporary city governance, with particular reference to policies, strategies and tools for urban and territorial regeneration. This topic is faced at international level in the framework of cultural and scientific exchanges with Institutions, Research Centers and Public and Private Universities, with specific relation to Mediterranean Europe, Latin America and Asia.
In this context, the proposed research, in continuity with the implemented joint research activities, and in particular with some Chinese Universities, will be aimed at defining and experiencing a "methodology" of intervention referenced to Italian and Chinese cities. This "methodology" simulates a planning process for the regeneration of urban fabrics characterized by a significant presence of historic and natural heritage.
This process sets as a final aim the construction of structural projects based on the strengthening of the relations between public space systems, historic infrastructures and environmental networks, recognizable within strategic planning zones, that require the use and the experimentation of innovative procedures, tools and implementing mechanisms.
Therefore, the research proposal adopts an inter-scalar and integrated approach, with the aim of reaching a framework of theoretical-methodological and operational references, to put in place an urban regeneration strategy, through three different disciplinary perspectives (structural, morphological, ecological-environmental) and three levels of planning (metropolitan, urban, local).
