Ricerc@Sapienza

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. In this perspective, creativity has taken on an increasingly broader meaning, capable of generating current solutions and unexpected projects, informed by a restored awareness of local communities, and by collective manifestations which, starting from the bottom, manage to capture the infinite potential of public spaces, transforming them into the driving forces of modern and lively social activities.