Ricerc@Sapienza

The aim of this chapter is to shed light on the policy process triggered by a major private initiative of real estate investment. It consists of thebuilding of a new football stadium with related facilities, plus business and leisure centers. In the considered time-frame (2012-2017) the public-private relationships implied in this process took the form of a long and uncertain bargaining. We wanted to know if this case of urban development reveals significant changes in the strategies public actors pursue in Rome when dealing with private investments in real estate business. Moreover, we have answered questions about continuity or discontinuity in the role played by political actors and institutions in what we consider a peculiar kind of urban regime and the related accumulation strategies. In order to do so, our analysis focuses on the dynamics of the policy agenda and the forms taken by the governance of this process.