Progettare la cittá di prossimitá per promuovere le "capacitá urbane" degli abitanti svantaggiati

Abstract

Upgrading the quality of urban life necessarily goes hand in hand with building up an inclusive city, a city actually “usable” by all its inhabitants. The kind of project that is important from this point of view will focus on the most marginal areas of the city. Alongside the large, costly urban redevelopment interventions, transformations on a neighbourhood scale and "micro" dimension are particularly useful. This article attempts to show why an approach involving intervention linked with a “micro” dimension is effective and pertinent, and also describes a significant experiment carried out by the action research group TaMaLaCà of the Department of Architecture Design and Planning - Architecture at Alghero (University of Sassari) in the town of Sassari.