Margherita Meta (p)

Francesca Assennato

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Gabriella Pultrone (p)

Margherita Meta

Urban planning affirms the fundamental values and rights of humanity by renewing and revitalizing its role in an incessant theoretical-methodological and operational path aimed at attributing increasing importance both to the social dimension and to the interconnections with the natural ecosystem. Therefore, an integral ecology view is a necessary and inevitable choice to guarantee a sustainable future, attentive to the values of equity and justice infra and intra-generational, without leaving anyone behind.
Urban Planning contribution is be crucial in addressing global challenges locally and in achieving the 2030 Agenda Goals, with particular reference to Goal (SDG) 11 "Making cities and communities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable". This must remain as the constant object and objective of the theories and practices of urban and territorial planning even beyond the time horizon of 2030, as it synthetically contains, updating them, its founding principles, namely the improvement of living conditions and the regulation of transformations. territorial, for the achievement of which its integration with the objectives concerning water (Goal 6), energy (Goal 7), infrastructure (Goal 9), climate change (Goal 13), ecosystems and biodiversity (Goal 15) is important.
At the EU level, the perspective of ecological, energy and digital transitions highlights crucial challenges of multilevel governance, of links between new technologies and sustainability, of the role of cities and rural areas in the fight against climate change, from a planning coordination perspective. territorial that takes into account urban-rural connections.
In this context - which at national level includes the references SNSviS, PNRR, PNR 2021-2027 and in the context of ongoing research - the contribution proposes a reflection on the theme of rural areas in the light of the EU initiatives on smart villages for a green, digital and resilient Europe, capable of promoting balanced development, increasing connectivity, attractiveness, ecological quality, production of goods and services and reducing urban-rural gaps to strengthen territorial cohesion.
With reference to significant case studies, it questions the relationships between digital and ecological transition and territorial transformations, with results which, although not exhaustive, tend to highlight approaches, innovative tools and open questions for planning cities and territories in line with a vision of the future that integrates social, economic and ecological aspects.

Margherita Meta (p)

Gabriella Pultrone

The research analyses the issue of housing policies inside the programs of local
planning institutions and the complex structuring of Italian and European legislation,
and theorizes an innovative proposal of tools, strategies, rules and mechanisms to
define new regulations that can constitute an opportunity for the future of the
communities and rethinks the governance of contemporary territories, linked to the
new economic and social dynamics, and to the transformation processes of the city.
New references are theorised through an inductive and multi-scalar approach,
supported by the analysis of examples of case studies, to identify possible strategies,
rules and tools to make the housing issue becomes a central theme of every
intervention concerning the planning and regeneration of urban spaces and cities.
The study aims at defining a planning model that, in contrast to the phenomena of
abandonment, degradation or gentrification of the contemporary city, can introduce
a systematic method of implementing housing policies within urban regeneration
strategies, to ensure that even the most fragile sections of the population can take
advantage of quality living spaces, guaranteed by socially inclusive, supportive
institutional mechanisms capable of resolving their needs.
What emerges from the research is multiple economic and social factors, typological
and morphological characteristics of cities following their different historical phases,
and the complexity of the legislation, as well as the extreme dynamism of the
different contexts in which the aforementioned instances are placed: through the
awareness of this complexity, the need of an innovative local plan in which housing
policies can have a central position and a pivotal role is highlighted, and it is
intended to put in place some initial references for a new sustainable and inclusive
planning and government of territories.

Francesca Assennato (p), Anna Luise, Daniela Smiraglia

Margherita Meta

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