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“Serpentone Reload” an Experience of Citizens Involvement in Regeneration of Peripheral Urban Spaces

2015

Suburbs are often very contradictory places. Despite great part of urban population live there, these parts of cities are mostly considered as degradation places. The topic of suburbs regeneration is relevant today. Nevertheless, often expensive interventions implemented by local authorities fail to regenerate their public spaces. This paper presents the experience of “Serpentone reload”, a workshop based on participatory reactivation of abandoned or underused spaces and buildings in “Cocuzzo/Serpentone” neighbourhood in Potenza (Basilicata, Italy). The workshop particularly focused on the reuse of the “Ship”, an underground building, completed in 2010, never used, because it has been perce…

education.field_of_studyPublic spacePopulationPsychological interventionCo-creationCitizen journalismBusinessPublic space Co-creation Public housing neighbourhood Temporary designElement (criminal law)educationRegeneration (ecology)Environmental planningNeighbourhood (mathematics)
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Esplorare la povertà urbana in una prospettiva mediterranea: il caso del quartiere CEP a Palermo

2020

The paper addresses the issue of the multiple dimensions of urban poverty through mixed analyses carried out in the CEP neighborhood of Palermo. The article tries to avoid incurring the dichotomy between the Global North and South and adopts a Mediterranean perspective, attempting to describe the neighborhood from below and starting from the voices of its youngest inhabitants. In light of the most recent pandemic events, the issue of urban poverty deserves to be explored with renewed academic debates.

inequalitypublic housingSociology and Political Science05 social sciences0211 other engineering and technologies0507 social and economic geography021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologySettore ICAR/21 - Urbanisticaurban povertyUrban Studiesinsurgent practiceSettore M-GGR/01 - Geografia050703 geographyneighborhoodARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI
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Existential risks of an excluded community: Le mani sulle città by Franco Rosi

2020

L’articolo analizza la questione dell’abusivismo edilizio, esploso negli anni ’60, attraverso la riflessione su un famoso film di Franco Rosi, Le mani sulla città, che ha trattato le contraddizioni e i fallimenti della disciplina urbanistica se corrotta da interessi privati. The essay focuses on the film Le mani sulla città (Hands on the city, 1963) by Francesco Rosi. The film, set in Naples, explores some significant aspects of the Italian "Reconstruction" after the end of the Second World War and offers interesting insights. That period was characterized by a number of active, social and economic, recovery policies which produced job and development opportunities and triggered the develop…

public housing urban speculation economic policiesSettore ICAR/21 - Urbanistica
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