Self-organized practices for complex urban transformation. The case of Bagnoli in Naples, Italy

Autori

  • Stefania Ragozino Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9120-242X
  • Andrea Varriale Europa-Universitat Flensburg Interdisziplinares Institut fur Umwelt-, Social- und Humanwissenschaften Abteilung Geographie
  • Gabriella Esposito De Vita Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-1838

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_2.3.14278

Parole chiave:

urban regeneration, governance, social movements

Abstract

The current political instability and economic uncertainty slow down and complicate urban transformations and their correspondent decisional processes. At the same time, however, “austerity urbanism” pushes cities to explore alternative policy-making approaches that might include new actors in the policy network.

We investigate this democratic potentiality by analyzing different configurations of actors (2002-2016) that have been participating in the over two decades-long, and still incomplete, transformation of a former industrial area in Bagnoli, in western Naples (Italy). In 2015, the central Government took over the city’s planning competences over the area. In response, several social movements have intensified their action against what they regard as an unchecked, “neo-liberal” transformation of the area. The compatibility of the respective views, as well as pragmatic considerations, led to an alignment between movements and the city and to their joint opposition to the Government. This configuration, we argue, makes room for usually excluded actors and is thus an innovative way of urban policy making.

Biografie autore

Stefania Ragozino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS

Stefania Ragozino, Ph.D.
Associate Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS

Andrea Varriale, Europa-Universitat Flensburg Interdisziplinares Institut fur Umwelt-, Social- und Humanwissenschaften Abteilung Geographie

Wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen
Europa-Universitat Flensburg
Interdisziplinares Institut fur Umwelt-, Social- und Humanwissenschaften
Abteilung Geographie

Gabriella Esposito De Vita, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS

Researcher

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo CNR IRISS

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Pubblicato

2018-06-30

Come citare

Ragozino, S., Varriale, A., & Esposito De Vita, G. (2018). Self-organized practices for complex urban transformation. The case of Bagnoli in Naples, Italy. Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_2.3.14278