Giuseppe De Luca, Carlo Pisano, University of Florence
Michele Talia, President of INU
A significant part of urban transformation does not take place at the “higher” levels of planning, but through a wide range of regulations, sectoral plans, procedures, administrative practices and operational instruments that shape the use and transformation of urban space on a daily basis. It is at this less visible level that many planning decisions are concretely translated, adapted, negotiated and, at times, redefined.
This international seminar proposes interpreting this field as an “urbanism beneath”. This is not an alternative to statutory planning, but a complementary dimension that shapes how it is implemented. Sectoral and experimental plans, agendas, protocols, technical standards, permitting procedures, rules governing the use of space and management practices can strengthen the capacity of planning to shape the city, but can also produce fragmentation, exceptions and unequal treatment.
The six sessions address the topic from complementary perspectives:
- administrative discretion;
- practical and institutional knowledge;
- the relationship between emerging practices and statutory planning frameworks;
- the institutional dimension;
- transformations associated with exceptional events and crises;
- tools for assessment, decision-making and implementation.
PROGRAMME
9:30 Opening, Session 2
Practical and Institutional Knowledge
Discussant
Paolo Galuzzi, PDTA, Sapienza University of Rome
Speakers
“Mechanisms, Arrangements and Spaces for Action: Minimum Conditions for Practising Urban Planning in the Bologna Plain”
Mauro Baioni, Roma Tre University
“From the Neighbourhood Architect to Proximity Planning: Local Knowledge and Its Relationship with Reggio Emilia’s General Urban Plan”
Francesco Berni, Raffaele Davolio, Municipality of Reggio Emilia
“When the Plan Is No Longer Enough: Ultra-Conformist Governance and Regulatory Urban Planning in Small Historic Town Centres”
Stefano Bigiotti, Municipality of Valentano
“From Practice to Plan: The SpazioComune Network in Cesena as a Mechanism for ‘Underground’ Urban Planning”
Silvia Canali, Andrea Lucchi, Municipality of Cesena
“Livorno’s Strategic Charter for Urban Sustainability: An ‘Underground’ Urban Planning Mechanism Combining Learning by Doing, Ethical and Professional Responsibility, and Renewed Public Space Policy and Governance in Response to the Climate Crisis”
Silvia Viviani, Municipality of Livorno
Giuseppe Dell’Aquila, Coordinator of the Editorial Team for Livorno’s Strategic Charter for Urban Sustainability
“Urban Planning from the Side: The School–City Interface as an Opportunity to Experiment with Intervention Protocols and Territorial Activation Mechanisms”
Cristina Renzoni, Valentina Rossella Zucca, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano
11:00 Closing of the proceedings
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