“La ‘città pubblica’ come laboratorio di riqualificazione urbana. Progetti per ridisegnare lo spazio pubblico, processi per costruire spazi del pubblico” (con S. Basso)

Urban and social decay has often brought to associate social housing districts to the critics to urban outskirts, and thus to ignore their spatial qualities and resources. Through design explorations and “neighbourhood laboratories” open to inhabitants and institutions, the national research The “public city” as a design laboratory. The production of Guidelines for sustainable renewal of urban suburbs suggests new ways of working on this relevant estate of dwellings and public spaces, showing that they can still play a strategic role in spatial and social upgrading of wider sectors of the contemporary city.