RIGENERAZIONE URBANA IN ITALIA E IN EUROPA

For over a decade, despite differences among institutional and administrative frameworks, challenges in urban regeneration are facing three main issues. The first one is equity, understood as the quality of covenant with citizens. Then effectiveness, framed as a set of conditions that optimize the urban performance. Sustainability is the third, which conveys morphological and ecological quality of the environment. Equity is specially carried out in actions with a social dominant, which promote social and functional “mixité” in deprived neighbourhoods. Outcomes often take to significant changes in morphology (densification, demolition and reconstruction, re-interpretation of the empty-solid proportion), as well as in the sustainability and effectiveness, through the testing of materials and technologies to support new requirements, such as reducing waste or even reach energy independence. In order to strengthen the economic structure of obsolete urban fabrics and abandoned industrial areas, the promotion of “strategy steering” is frequently brought outside the inner circle of experts, towards the population involved in planning decisions. Sustainability implies different “levers” in order to tackle the “urban form”, by integrating the novel attention to environmental and landscape issues into the morphological tradition of planning.