Quando «un nuovo ciclo di vita» non si dà. Fenomenologia dello spazio abbandonato e prospettive per il progetto urbanistico oltre il paradigma del riuso

Abstract

Il nostro paese attraversa oggi una fase profondamente distante da quella, improntata alla crescita, che fino al recente passato ha ampiamente condizionato temi e orientamenti operativi del progetto urbanistico. L'ipotesi sostenuta in questo contributo è che molti degli edifici oggi sottoutilizzati e abbandonati che ritroviamo sul territorio porranno forti resistenze a un progetto di riuso. In tal senso sarà necessario ripensare il ruolo dell'azione urbanistica, che dovrà orientarsi non tanto verso una prospettiva di ricomposizione, quanto verso la definizione delle modalità di convivenza con tali emergenti forme di abbandono

New Value from Stalled Real Estate Investments. Empirical Evidences from Some Italian Experiences

“…Upstream of any kind of intervention, a selection to operate between the areas remains essential, without falling into the rhetoric and slogans of reuse. The positioning of the areas is fundamental, the positional incidence is still confirmed as one of the main factors that guide the choice of the project (Bullen, Love, 2010;Lanzani Merlini Zanfi, 2014;Manganelli, 2014).…”

“…Metaphors aside, release of building rights to be exercised on another area in exchange for the demolition of the building. In addition, the agreement will often include the sale to the public of the area in question (Antoniucci, Micelli, 2013;Lanzani, Merlini, Zanfi, 2014). Clearly, since the agreements for the transfer of building rights can only take place within the same municipal territory, these will be effective only in medium-large municipalities.…”

Urban Demolition: Application of Blight Elimination Programs and Flood Buyout Programs to the Italian Case

“…In those contexts, regeneration policies-public or private-have a weak economic foundation and manifest limited efficiency when applied. With these aspects in mind, the absence of a reuse perspective for a medium-term period has recently prompted a debate about possible governance policies that focus on a programmed transition through demolition [25], which makes evident the demands for an alternative approach to the usual regeneration programs. In comparison to cases depicted in the literature, where US and German cases are prevalent [10,26,27], the Italian cases exhibit significant distinctions regarding the reasons that lead to decommissioning, such as the real-estate's physical characteristics, local economic conditions, and the very social structure which perceives housing as a long-term value asset.…”

Demolition as a Territorial Reform Project

“…For the urban design, a reflection therefore opens up that primarily seeks to recognize those situations in which it is possible to recover and transfer value, through mechanisms of subtraction and addition of volumes. It is essentially a case of promoting a reorganisation process based on identifying source areas and areas of fall in volumes, made operational through volumetric transfer mechanisms, while also evaluating the factors that ensure economic feasibility (Lanzani et al 2014).…”