Urban regeneration and processes of dismissal of public/military real estate in Italy

Abstract

The Italian legislation story about the decommissioning of public real estate heritage, began in the middle of 80’s and continues along the 90’s in a context of State finances persisting problems. In Italy, in many cases the military heritage no longer answers back at the army current needs and it is often located in areas that over time have become marginal in the changed international strategic and logistical framework, as well as being outdated compared at a modern defensive system (or it would require substantial resources for adapting it to new technologies, legislations and standards).Even though some European Countries have been proceeded by a progressive and virtuous put in work of re-qualification processes (by State programs, as the German Stadtumbau Ost and Programm Soziale Stadt, or in terms of European cooperation, as the REPAIR), the Italian case it is characterized by a general situation of high uncertainty and discontinuity in the phase of setup and achievement of policies for alienation and valorisation. This article aims to reconstruct the story of the reuse of Italian public real estate heritage delineating the heterogeneous and complex legislative framework on which is based the process of reuse of goods, mainly for those that were military properties formerly. It is proposed, indeed, a reconstruction of the inertiality that are characterizing the programs promoted by the Italian State and the processes connected by them.