Università Roma Tre

Part One addresses the conceptual definition of public policies, introducing and critically discussing the distinction between policy and politics; the formulation of the problems that policies must deal with, and their putting 'on the agenda'; the coupling between problems and solutions; the nature and role of the actors that influence policy design in a multilevel governance framework and policy implementation, assessment and effects.
Part Two explores a wide array of regeneration policies and practices in European and North American contexts, that pay increasing attention to the quality of life at local level by intertwining affordable housing, local development and community empowerment issues. The case of the construction of local agendas also helps revisit a wide range of Italian urban and territorial policies, notably in reference to governance issues. Environment and biodiversity take in a major role, allowing to tackle welfare and wellbeing in urban and peri-urban areas.
Part Three, that will be developed alongside the previous parts, is devoted to a practical approach to a specific case study.
On the backdrop of the challenges awaiting the Municipality of Rome (Roma Capitale), the pilot will be Ostiense-Marconi district along the Tiber River, affected by industrial decommissioning and currently undergoing a culture-led regeneration process. The Ostiense working-class district just south of the city centre, has become part for thirty years now of a regeneration program conveying a brand new idea of a ‘Knowledge City’, deemed able to supplant the previous image of the ‘Factory City’.
The district, named after the Consular road Via Ostiense linking the republican Rome to the port town of Ostia, hosted among others at the turn of the XX Century the river port, the first electric power station in Rome and a huge gasometer, that stands as an impressive landmark in the skyline. Ostiense has long since experienced different migrant communities’ waves forming intense cross-cultural networks within the social fabric.
Despite its renown as a successful example of a multicultural melting pot as well as a cool creative environment with a strong appeal to citizens and visitors, Ostiense is facing a far more ambitious challenge. Beyond conflicts over space and uses, this contribution will frame the regeneration process over time focusing on governance expectations and failures in mediating between various interests at stake resulting in highly segmented dynamics along the multiple paths of ethnic, cultural and socio-economic difference.
Throughout the course's development, surveys, communications, seminars, and meetings with stakeholders will intertwine theoretical and practical narratives, highlighting syntonies and contradictions, negotiations and interference between top-down and bottom-up approaches witnessing the fluctuating interplay between the community and institutions.

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Approfondimenti

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Critica della ragion pratica
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