Regenerating informal habitat in marginal areas through a people-oriented approach

Abstract

This study, carried out by a multidisciplinary research team, deals with the participatory regeneration process of a marginal residential area in the city of Rome. The research focuses on the theme of urban health and the improvement of indoor and outdoor living conditions according to a people-oriented approach. The work was carried out on two fronts: desk research based on urban, health and socio-demographic sources, and a series of field studies. An operational protocol valid in informal contexts, which escape official censuses, was thus elaborated in order to assign objective values of social and housing discomfort, to measure the concept of urban welfare and to identify possible regeneration strategies for the informal habitat.

Urban regeneration of public housing settlements, in Rome: the case study of San Basilio district

“…The redevelopment of public housing cannot be separated from an overall rethinking of its pattern of use: housing and public services represent a strong instrument of integration and social cohesion available to the public administration to act with targeted measures in situations of marginality or physical, social and economic degradation. In this context, possible actions related to the promotion of the improvement of suburban settlements and its buildings represent the synthesis of all components of energy, environmental, economic and social sustainability, through an open dialogue between citizens, politicians, technicians and stakeholders to assess impacts under different perspectives [7].…”