Metropolitan cities: economic and territorial strategies, financial constraints and circular regeneration

Roberto Camagni (Principal Investigator), Andrea Antonio Caragliu, Liala Baiardi, Giovanni Perucca, Gianandrea Ciaramella, Marzia Morena, Cinzia Talamo, Stefano Bellintani, Ugo Fratesi, Valentina Puglisi, Silvia Cerisola, Chiara Tagliaro

The project had two main objectives: 1) to interpret the main criticalities and constraints that Metropolitan Cities in Italy face at different scales and on different dimensions (economic, environmental and settlement-related); 2) to identify the different possible responses in terms of strategies and action tools on the individual dimensions and the different territorial levels, in order to define a new urban policy paradigm. This new paradigm is based on several concepts: a. self-organisation of cities and local communities based on identity, sociability and sense of belonging, p/p collaboration, participation and strategic planning; b. fiscal federalism and subsidiarity; c. resource efficiency of infrastructures and also of durable consumer goods (sharing economy); d. circular economy (from recycling, to energy retrofitting of buildings, to solidarity-based reuse of goods).

Contribution to SDGs: 11, 12