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Experimenting between Design and Planning
No full textPrefazione al Volume collettaneo Human Smart Citie
Multiexpert knowledge acquisition for rehabilitation strategies of historical urban centres
No full textAtti della Seconda conferenza nazionale su Informatica e Pianificazione Urbana e Territoriale INPUT 2001: Democrazia e Tecnologie
No full textArena Models. Deliverable 2.1 for Periheria project, Grant Agreement number: 271015
No full textIl progetto descrive concetto di Arena models e lo stato iniziale dei piloti all'interno del proto Peripheri
Decision support tools for urban contingency policy. A scenario approach to risk management of the Vesuvio Area in Naples, Italy
No full textContingency management, in particular the management of unanticipated events outside the control of an ordinary planning system has, in the last 50 years, become an important and frequently debated issue in the scientific literature on complex systems management under risk conditions. The urban system can be regarded as such an open complex system where external events, not always foreseeable with a closed system’s model, may strongly impact on the internal dynamics of an urban area. Conventionally, planning the future presupposes collecting information and analyzing it rationally in order to control for unexpected contingency events. But it is an important question in the field of urban planning how proper strategies can be developed to deal with external uncertainty and shocks that transcend the imagination of policy-makers. How should decision-makers respond to such unforeseen jumps in a system? The aim of this article is to present and apply a new scientific decision support method based on the future studies literature, with the aim to help decision-makers in the strategic management of uncertainty and risk in order ‘to anticipate the extraordinary events correctly in order to act more effectively’ (Godet, 1987). In particular, we here deploy the scenario methodology in combination with multicriteria analysis and fuzzy set theory, as a useful learning tool for the governance of complex dynamic systems. In current debates on policy-makers’ possible reactions to uncertainty (e.g., in the context of sustainability strategies), very often the socalled ‘no regret’ principle is advocated. The validity of this approach is tested, in the context of the present article, on real-world threats in the Vesuvio volcanic area in the vicinity of the densely populated city of Naples, Italy. Four different policy scenarios are developed with the purpose to examine, control and reduce the risk for the people concerned in case of a future volcanic eruption and to lay, at the same time, the foundation for a drastic rehabilitation of the entire metropolitan area
Fragilità urbane, mobilità e politiche di contrasto al Covid in Africa subsahariana
No full textAlcuni contesti urbani necessitano di una mobilità
permanente e flessibile di beni e persone come condizione
per la vita collettiva e il sostentamento di base. Per
questi contesti la pandemia ha concretizzato sfide che
non possono essere analizzate con paradigmi cognitivi di
origine americo-euro-centrica.
Per la città di Maputo, l’articolo riflette sulle fragilità
urbane dell’Africa subsahariana, analizzando le
misure di prevenzione della pandemia in relazione
alla mobilità come fattore di co-produzione della città.
In tal senso si ridefiniscono i concetti di urbano e di
mobilità e si propongono strategie di analisi e strumenti
di osservazione capillari da supportare con una oculata
governance dei dati.
Parole chiave: mobilità urbana; Mozambico; governance
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Urban fragility and mobility patterns; facing Covid
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Some urban environments require permanent and
flexible mobility of goods and people as a condition to
allow the urban life itself, the participation in society
and the basic sustenance. Threatened by the pandemics,
such environments face challenges that cannot be
analyzed through Western-based cognitive paradigms.
The article discusses urban fragilities in Sub-Saharan
Africa in the light of Covid prevention measures
by analyzing mobility patterns in Maputo as
fundamental drivers for the city’s spatial co-production.
Epistemologically redefining the concepts of urban and
mobility, the article proposes strategies of analysis and
of capillary observation that clearly need the careful
development of a data governance ecosystem.
Keywords: urban mobility; Mozambique; governanc
Can Participatory Activities Enable Creativity in Urban Planning? An Observatory in Action Approach
No full textCan Participatory Activities Enable Creativity in Urban Planning? An Observatory in Action Approach
No full textMany planning experiences show the plurality and diversification of the planning tasks. Such
a plurality and diversification is mainly due to the more and more crucial need of the planners
to reinterpret their planning roles out of institutional protocols and to develop always new
communication frameworks which have to be deeply rooted in the contexts of planning.
Contexts are the results of evolving interdependencies between spaces and communities and
are no longer manageable within whatever complex or general set of rules. As a consequence,
communication in planning cannot be considered relying on participatory activities carried out
within pre-structured planning protocols or simply considered as some of the several activities
of the planning process.
Coherently with this vision, we challenge in this paper the conception of planning as a process
for capturing and using knowledges by rethinking it as a process to be continuously shifted
and adapted towards crucial cognitive resources which are hard to be involved in planning
processes by the use of pre-structured participatory protocols. By crucial cognitive resources
we mean dispersed but crucial knowledges which are active exclusively within social
mechanisms regulating the interdependencies between communities and their spaces.
In the first part we critically reflect on the connections between creativity and participative
planning and highlight some pitfalls underlying the current way of considering knowledge
generation in them. In the second part of this paper we describe an observatory way to carry
out a participative planning action and an evolutionary way to conceive communication
protocols in action which draws on our experience in different planning contexts. Rethink
participation as an “observatory in action” implies focusing on the dynamic processes through
which planning issues are collectively constructed and on the modalities through which those
collective constructions interact with or could influence the planning tasks in order to produce
creative opportunities for planning actions. It aims at intercepting crucial cognitive resources
able to invent new possibilities of action. Finally, we highlight some of the challenges that
such an “observatory in action” approach poses to current participative planning practices.
Specifically we argue for the need of reconceptualizing knowledge and roles within current
communicative planning activities
Innovazione place-based: il caso delle social street
No full textStarting from the evidence that places, namely urban places, are more and more showing up as innovation drivers, which are able to connect, activate and put in synergy spontaneous citizen initiatives, this paper describes the phenomenon of 'social streets', analysing three Italian examples in the light of four interpretative components of the place-based innovation concept, and also discussing some aspects related to the emerging governance structures, as well as the profiles of similarity with the so-called Urban Living Labs (ulls). The conclusion is that the social street experiences can actually contribute to place-based innovation, intended as improving localized social relations
La dimensione territoriale nell’approccio dei living labs. Verso i territorial living labs per il sostegno alle città e alle regioni‘smart’
Full text linkLe politiche comunitarie di sostegno alla pianificazione spaziale centrate sul policentrismo hanno cercato di innestare dinamiche di cambiamento della situazione di stallo economico e sociale delle regioni periferiche a nord e a sud dell’area centrale del continente europeo. Il policentrismo allude alla possibilità di generazione di nuove centralità in aree deboli come contrasto al declino tendenziale e per rafforzare la coesione territoriale che si affianca alla coesione sociale ed economica nelle principali politiche della UE. Una prosecuzione di queste politiche avviate con l’Esdp e sviluppate in termini di analisi con Espon, è data dai programmi comunitari sulle ICT che coinvolgono direttamente anche le imprese private specializzate del settore. Il tema quindi è la creazione di nuove centralità in regioni dove i fenomeni urbani non riescono o non possono strutturalmente far parte dei sistemi metropolitani mondiali di accumulazione di capitali prevalentemente finanziari che, a loro volta, sono travolti da una crisi che sembra assumere i caratterini di un declino sistemico e strutturale. Le ICT costituiscono un ambito riflessivo e di elaborazione di politiche che possono cambiare le città, non solo di quelle che fanno parte delle aree forti e centrali del continente europeo, ma anche nelle aree deboli dove il concetto di ‘sviluppo’ sembra essere superato in favore di volontà diverse e più centrate a fornire risposte autocentrate alla domanda sociale. E’ su quest’ultima che può attestarsi e concentrarsi l’offerta di tecnologia ed è sulla innovazione sociale che l’avanzamento tecnologico e la creazione di nuovi mercati potrebbero avere una spinta decisiva a livello locale e sovra locale. Il contributo presenta una sintesi dei risultati dell’avvio del progetto Peripheria che riguarda il supporto ad alcune Smart City e Living Labs per sperimentare modi innovativi condivisi in reti di produzione territoriale
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