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The Contested Countryside. Spatial Planning and Governance across the Urban/Rural Interface in Italy and England
No full textThe book explores the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and planning polizie in two domestic contexts, Italy and England. It investigates the relational politics, processes and practices of cooperation by which local governments can shape planning policies and strategies addressed to improve the contribution of agricultural production in building stronger urban/rural relationships and in guiding the transition towards more sustainable food systems. The research problematizes this topic by looking at the planning actions and interactions, connection and disconnections among local governments in three cases of different administrative and geographical size and configuration: the metropolitan area of Milan and the Aso Valley in Italy, and the city-region of Bristol in England.
The study offers a contribution to planning research and practice by investigating possible governante arrangements and planning approaches by which local governments can strengthen the spatial and functional ties between cities and their rural hinterland. What the three cases elicit is a delicate tension among city’s pressing social and economic needs and countryside’s unexploited contribution to more localised patterns of agricultural production
Planning for local food systems: a study on potentials and limitations in Italy and England
Full text linkThe contribution examines the role of planning in improving the sustainability of local food systems. Specifically, by focusing on two domestic contexts of the Global North –Italy and England–, it investigates how planning policies and plans contribute to shape the relationships among food production and consumption across the urban/rural continuum. Research findings underline that the prevailing approach by planners and policy makers in dealing with the food system is regulative and prescriptive. Emphasis is on protecting existing agro-ecological resources and visual amenities of the countryside, rather than exploring the ways in which agricultural production and multifunctionality can guide a transition towards more sustainable food systems. Reasons of this limitation lie in planning’s disjointed focus on distinct policy regimes, which is mainly due to sectoral and regulative designations and to structural conditions. Conversely, a positive contribution in exploring the potentials of food for shaping better urban/rural relationships comes from a number of alternative, non- statutory, collaborative spaces among farmers and civil society. These have emerged in opposition with the standards and regulations typically underlying the planning process. Their potential lies in the reflexive approach and in the process of inclusive negotiation they share in addressing the vulnerabilities of the food system
Ai margini della città: letture della diversità a Basse di Stura
No full textAbstract del volume: Tra le diverse configurazioni che lo spazio pubblico assume nella città, quella a verde è certamente la componente dove si gioca in modo più rilevante, contemporaneamente, il miglioramento della salute e del benessere delle comunità urbane ma anche quello della qualità degli insediamenti, cosi come l’inclusione sociale e la mitigazione degli impatti prodotti dai cambiamenti climatici. La prospettiva di lavoro al centro di questo numero monografico, converge sulla centralità della connessione fra benessere umano e funzionalità degli ecosistemi adottando il paradigma offerto dai Servizi Ecosistemici (MEA 2005, Haines-Young and Potschin 2013) che presuppone l’assunzione del punto di vista dei beneficiari (ovvero dei destinatari dei servizi/benefici) per interrogarsi su quali siano gli approcci progettuali e gli strumenti necessari ad una loro integrazione nelle informazioni a supporto dei processi decisionali del governo del territorio per la pianificazione sostenibile dell’uso del suolo
Recensione "Space and Pluralism. Can Contemporary Cities Be Places of Tolerance?" edited by S. Moroni & D. Weberman
No full textRedefining the Domestic between New Forms of Dwelling and Emerging Social Problems
No full textThe space of the contemporary city has been changing in the modes in which it hosts social groups and their practices of spatial appropriation. During the last decades, temporariness and informality are shaping in a different way the scene in which people daily exchange objects and words. The gradual mutation and hybridization of public space have built the conditions for a wider redefinition of the pre-established notions of private and public sphere. At the same time, the deep redefinition of the housing forms and demands are calling into question effective ways to intervene in a completely new panorama of actors and conditions, gradually becoming more difficult to read and interpre
The Everyday (in) Urbanism: What's New on the Spot
Full text linkThe paper aims at measuring the influence that the everyday theme has exercised in the formation of the idea of space that is permeating the thought of many contemporary urban planners. Through the investigation of two recent approaches, the Italian and the American ones, the complex relationships between daily practices and urban spaces, in the continuous redefinition of the concepts of public and private sphere, are described. In this context, the Everyday Urbanists' work had the merit to reveal and investigate the social possibilities offered by the patterns of everyday life. They were among the first to speak about a citizenship redefinition, process which has been increasingly debated by many scholars. Citizenship is thus turning to be less formal, while becoming more substantive and insurgent. The paper demonstrates that, according to this crucial change, new and meaningful relations between citizenship and planning can be established and that these are able to open planning practice up to the present ethnographical possibilities of the urban space, and to its tactical and polysemic dimension
Urban/rural co-productions. Planning and governance approaches for improving the relationships among city and countryside in Italy and England
Full text linkThe thesis explores the relationship among local governments’ cooperation and planning policies in two domestic contexts, Italy and England. The purpose is to investigate the relational politics, processes and practices of cooperation by which local governments can shape planning policies addressed to improve the contribution of agricultural production in building stronger ties among city and countryside. The research problematized this topic by looking at the planning actions and interactions, connection and disconnections among local governments in two domestic contexts, Italy and England, and in three cases of contrasting administrative and geographical size and configuration: the metropolitan area of Milan, the Aso Valley in Marche region and the City Region of Bristol. The thesis adopts a qualitative research methodology, in which the data collection relies mainly on a series of semi-structured interviews, addressed to institutional actors and civil society representatives, and a documentary analysis on reports and official planning documents. A further methodology employed by the research is the scenario-making, which is used for evolving the planning and governance processes of the three case studies towards more effective collaborative arrangements. In the metropolitan area of Milan, the two forms of cooperation investigated within the space of the South Agricultural Park —the Park Authority and the Rural Districts— although spatially overlapping and sharing a common space of action, they have not established any significant relationship yet and they have been expressing two different planning rationales. While the Park Authority’s planning policy has a narrow focus on land-use regulation due to important financial and management constraints, the Rural Districts have shown a high transformative potential which has conveyed a process of critical reconnection between food consumers and producers across the urban/rural continuum. In the Aso Valley, a number of spaces of cooperation among local governments and civil society, which intersect and overlay, can be recognized. They have constructed a collaborative landscape of variable geometries where local actors have promoted a strategic and forward thinking towards local development. These cooperative geometries have resulted in reformulating the urban/rural dichotomy into a multifunctional and strongly interdependent countryside. Current challenges lie in guiding local governments to construct a consistent and efficient joint planning policy able to express a coherent vision of development for the whole valley. In the City Region of Bristol, the relevant issues of transparency and accountability raised by the Local Enterprise Partnership —the newly business led inter-municipal body established in 2011 by central government— come together with a planning policy only addressed to housing and infrastructure demands. The result is that, in the process of delivering new developments, the Plan has discarded the quality of agricultural land and the location of green and blue infrastructures. Hence, it has originated negative impacts on the agro-ecological resources of the city region and, more importantly, it has overlooked the contribution of the countryside in addressing city region’s social and economic growth. The study offers a contribution on planning research and practice by investigating three different governance and planning approaches to the issue of agricultural production within the urban/rural interface. What the three cases elicit is a delicate tension among city’s pressing social and economic needs and countryside’s unexploited contribution to more localized patterns of agricultural production
The role of planning in shaping better urban-rural relationships in Bristol City Region
No full textLocalism Agenda adopted by Coalition Government in 2010 reflected the rejection of the regional level and the ambition to rebalance national economy, by devolving economic and social responsibilities down to cities and local communities. The introduction of the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) as joint local authority-business bodies in charge of better coordinating public and private investments in several areas of economic develop- ment, has remodelled the governance of British city regions towards their increased autonomy from central government. Among the most relevant spatial impacts of the new institutional arrangement the reshaping of a new relationship between cities and their rural hinterlands emerges. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the planning policies at local and city-regional level dealing with and affecting rural areas in the context of Bristol City Region. It demonstrates that most of the failings of planning in supporting the development of rural areas relate to the rigidity of its policies and to the poor attitude towards the innovation of its tools. The paper argues that a more proactive and integrated approach for planning is needed to re-build stronger agri-food relations and to achieve a more sustainable land use management at city regional level
Soft Cooperation and Rural Development in Aso Valley in Italy
Full text linkAso Valley is among the most advanced agricultural contexts in Italy. In recent years it has hosted the experimentation of some policy tools whose innovation was given by the fruitful cooperation between public and private actors in promoting rural development. This paper aims at critically analyzing contents and aims of the spaces of cooperation in Aso Valley, demonstrating to which extent they have influenced policy-making processes and reconstructed the fragmented institutional panorama characterizing the local level. Emphasis is placed on the role that planning could play in supporting rural policies. It is demonstrated that the integration of rural policies into territorial planning could better sustain local farmers' activity, empower agricultural enterprises and reduce the conflicts between urban and rural land uses
Contrasti e convivenze lungo la Salaria
No full textNella valle del Tronto, spazi e popolazioni rinnovano relazioni responsabili di mutare continuamente i caratteri di riconoscibilità del territorio. I quartieri produttivi di fondovalle, gli insediamenti residenziali lungo la Salaria, le piastre della logistica, gli sviluppi incrementali lungo le strade provinciali di crinale sono alcuni dei modi con cui l’uomo ha mediato il suo rapporto con il territorio. In questi contesti, la varietà e l’eterogeneità di pratiche e usi ci restituiscono volti diversi della città contemporanea. La ricerca ha provato a costruire un profilo di questo territorio, nel tentativo di farne emergere i suoi tratti fisici riconoscibili, gli ordini spaziali fondanti e le più rappresentative dinamiche socio-economiche
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