Giovanni Allegretti

The ambiguous renaissance of Rome

1. Introduction (Libby Porter and Kate Shaw) Part 1: On Urban Renaissance Strategies Case Study: Top Down Vs. Bottom Up: Doreen From Silwood, a Social Housing Estate in South London (Mark Saunders) 2. Class-cleansing in Istanbuls World-city Project (Ibrahim Gundogdu and Jamie Gough) 3. Believing in Market Forces in Johannesburg (Tanja Winkler) 4. Regeneration through Urban Mega-projects in Riyadh (Tahar Ledraa and Nasser Abu-Anzeh) 5. Regulation and Property Speculation in the Centre of Mexico City (Beatriz Garcia-Peralta and Melanie Lombard) 6. Museumization and Transformation in Florence (Laura Colini, Anna Lisa Pecoriello, Lorenzo Tripodi and Iacopo Zetti) 7. Winners and Losers from Urban Growth in South East England (Bob Colenutt) Part 2: On Local Limits to Regeneration Strategies Case Study: When Fish Sing in Brussels (Ruth Pringle) 8. Renaissance through Demolition in Leipzig (Matthias Bernt) 9. Image Politics and Stagnation in the Ruhr Valley (Sebastian Muller and Constance Carr) 10. Gentrification and the Creative Class in Berlin-Kreuzberg (Ingo Bader and Martin Bialluch) Part 3: On Grass-roots Struggles Case Study: Gathering Memories at the Battlefront: www.oldbeijing.org (Yi Jing, Giovanni Allegretti and James McKay) 11. The Contested Reinvention of Inner City Green Bay, Wisconsin (Marcelo Cruz) 12. Planning From Below in Barcelona (Marc Marti-Costa and Jordi Bonet-Marti) 13. The Ambiguous Renaissance of Rome (Giovanni Allegretti and Carlo Cellamare) 14. Struggling Against Renaissance in Birminghams Eastside (Libby Porter) 15. Urban Renaissance and Resistance in Toronto (Ute Lehrer) 16. Gentrification and Community Empowerment in East London (Claire Colomb) Part 4: On the Possibilities of Policy Case Study: Gertrude Street Fitzroy (Rodger Cummins and Kate Shaw) 17. Heritage Tourism and Displacement in Salvador da Bahia (Elena Tarsi) 18. Retail Gentrification in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona (Nuria Pascual-Molinas and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz) 19. The Melbourne Indie Music Scene and the Inner City Blues (Kate Shaw) 20. The Embrace of Amsterdams Creative Breeding Ground (Bas van de Geyn and Jaap Draaisma) 21. The Equitable Regeneration of Berne (Angela Stienen and Daniel Blumer) 22. Searching for the sweet spot in San Francisco (Peter Cohen and Fernando Marti) Case Study: Bottom Up Vs. Top Down: Jess From Pepys, a Social Housing Estate in South London (Mark Saunders) Part 5: New Theoretical and Practical Insights for Urban Policy 23. Whose Urban Renaissance? (Libby Porter) 24. Rising to a Challenge (Kate Shaw)

Participatory Design, beyond the local

This workshop aims at stimulating and opening a debate around the capacity of Participatory Design (PD) and other co-design approaches to deliver outcomes and methodologies that can have an impact and value for reuse well beyond the local context in which they were originally developed. This will be achieved by stimulating the submission of position papers by researchers from the PD community and beyond. These papers will be discussed during the workshop in order to identify challenges, obstacles but also potentials for scaling up PD processes and results from the local to the global.

Participatory budgeting: a methodological approach to address sustainability challenges

Sustainability, as defined here, is a dynamic balance between environmental, social/cultural, economic and governance factors to optimize the well-being of current and future generations, within the world’s ecological bounds. However, achieving this is highly problematic given the world’s disproportionate privileging of economic factors over others. Rather than lamenting this focus, the chapter explores how an aspect of the economy – the budgetary allocation – can be designed differently via participatory budgeting to achieve more sustainable outcomes. Participatory budgeting (PB) is ‘a process through which citizens can contribute to decisionmaking over at least part of the governmental budget’ (Goldfrank, 2007, p. 92). It is neither new nor uncommon; however, its potential as a method to achieve sustainability is largely unexplored. This chapter focuses on how PB, as a participatory form of governance, has helped and could foster more sustainable outcomes; and how it could achieve sufficient take-up and resilience to be a potential force for change. Participatory budgeting can be described best as a family of participatory experiences, often a hybrid with other participatory practices. It has spread rapidly around the planet, with experiments reaching more than 3,000 local institutions and some supra-municipalities (Sintomer et al., 2013). This chapter describes PB as a methodology, outlining the different forms it has taken. The chapter also illustrates how PB methods have addressed sustainability challenges and achieved more sustainable outcomes including: sustainable governance, social justice, continuity, resilience, sustainable outcomes and holistic future planning. Finally, we suggest how PB’s sustainability impact could be increased by ‘scaling out’ to broader participation, and ‘scaling up’ to address greater complexity.

Women in Budgeting: A Critical Assessment of Participatory Budgeting Experiences

Budgeting has for too long been considered a technical arena for highly skilled elites. Participatory Budgeting (PB) opens up the field and creates a space for local communities to discuss the equitable distribution of resources. However, gender has not been at the forefront of the PB debate. On the other hand, gender responsive budgeting has had its own growth trajectory, often not including participatory methods. The chapter highlights possible intersections between PB and gender mainstreaming and notes PB’s potential in addressing issues of gender mainstreaming and social justice, following dialogues with other complementary democratic innovations.

Pratiche partecipative in Europa: quali nuove sfide?

While the number of democratic countries grows, the intensity of their democracies lowers down. Nevertheless, the article focuses on innovative experiments at local level, which involve citizens in the setting of public policies and projects. It analyses these experiences showing their joint-effort to fight the disenchantment on public institutions and create a pedagogic learning environment for dynamising social fabric. It then proposes some challenges for the near future, centred on hybridisation of models.

Porto_Alegre una biografia territoriale

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