Autore
Di Bella, Arturo

Titolo
Rigenerazione territoriale e innovazione sociale della governance urbana
Periodico
Geotema
Anno: 2010 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 42 - Pagina iniziale: 80 - Pagina finale: 85

The management of urban spaces remains central to the debate regarding social innovation, local development, the relations established between public administration and citizens, and how these condition urbanity, understood as the quality of spatial and social cohesion of the city. The criticisms directed at the neo-liberal model are part of a more general rethinking of urban decision making and of the exercise of power within public administrations, involving aspects of both government and governance (Indovina, 1993; Papadopoulus, 2000; Bagnasco, Le Galès, 2001). The imperative that urban development should be sustainable implies, above all, a transformation of social relations in a democratic sense (Mouleart, Vicari Haddock, 2009), a different conception of the value of civic participation in territorial policies and the identification of the economic, symbolic and spatial conditions which favour the full citizenship of different groups and social strata. The innovative processes should overcome the reductive interpretations of participation as “a set of techniques” (Crosta, 2003; Fareri, 2009), rather giving it value as a useful tool allowing citizens to be considered not as simple receivers of services but as subjects active in the treatment of territorial problems. We require a socio-institutional creativity able to transform the production modalities of goods and/or services, public and collective, in the city (Balducci, 2004), maximising the synergy between the available resources, exploiting the intelligence dispersed throughout local society and experimenting new and more appropriate configurations of the public sphere (Cottino, Zeppetella, 2009). The simple anticipation of spaces for dialogue between institutions and citizens no longer seems sufficient with respect to sub- stantial innovation in the treatment of urban challenges, if the public administration does not accompany them, operating in the role of enabler and promoting the creativity of those components of civil society which, having forms of self-organisation, tackle needs remaining unsatisfied. The first part of our contribution describes some experiences particularly indicative of the active citizenry present in Catania, who unite practices of the social reuse of urban spaces and the supply of territorial services, and take responsibility for specific problems of the city. These include the social appropriation of degraded spaces by young people of the social centers, citizen committees which use public spaces to create laboratories of active citizenship, associative networks which operate on the social peripheries, and groups engaged in community work. The second part aims at identifying the conditions which can make these experiences of civic commitment lead to new interactions, contractual and cooperative, between institutions and civil society in order to innovate the practices of urban governance, creating paths of reciprocal learning, collective goods, extension of the public sphere and sustainable regeneration of the territory.



SICI: 1126-7798(2010)14:42<80:RTEISD>2.0.ZU;2-G
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