Rigenerazione e centralità urbane vs sprawl

Abstract

In the last 15 years, central urban areas demonstrated a particular vitality and an amazing capacity to put in place recovery strategies. In spite of an announced, but never happened, epochal decline of their role, urban realities continue to present themselves like a privileged place of economic growth and social and cultural experimentation. They appear as independent protagonists, inserting themselves in innovative economic circuits, attracting new finance and human resource from the outside, increasing tourist and cultural flows. A lot of industrial and port sites renovation have been completed having a positive effect in attracting new activities, investments and improvement of urban quality. In spite of forecasts of a reality in which the broadcast of technologies and immaterial form of production and communication would have led to decentralization and indifference as to localization, inside the city, there is a refocusing of the most important political, strategic, management and financial functions, as well as consolidation of the importance of interactions “face – to – face”, that are a really important factor for the constitution of a new functional network and work activities. These themes have characterized the Session Urban Regeneration vs Sprawl.