Planning the shrinking city. Some notes on reversibility in territorial government
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2531-9906/10631Keywords:
Urban shrinkage, De-growth, Rightsizing, Urban Planning, Territorial governmentAbstract
The contemporary city is currently experiencing a transition between a phase of growth and expansion and one of stasis or decline in most of the urban contexts of economically developed countries. This transition is also connected to the urban shrinkage phenomenon which arose at the beginning of the century, due to the economic and demographic crisis, and is radically changing the consolidated city' shapes and uses. The aleatory nature of material and immaterial manifestations of an occurrence like urban shrinkage and the inadequacy of a planner's “tools”, when facing the challenge to work on the city at loss, leads to identify the flexibility of urban plans as one of the most suitable and structural response to this type of city's condition. In such a context, the contribution aims to investigate how reversibility in urban planning, it is intended not only as the change of an object’ state from its current state, but also as the possibility of the object's return to its prior state before a certain event occurred as in the case of "downgrading" from urban to non-urban uses.
Through a comparative examination of the regional legislative framework, the article outlines the main aspects of reversibility of urban planning in the Italian context, eventually highlighting some attention points.
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D’Onofrio, R. & Trusiani, E. (2016). L’incertezza del futuro e l’adattabilità/reversibilità delle scelte di piano alle diverse scale: una esperienza olandese e una italiana. In M. Talia (Ed.), Un nuovo ciclo della pianificazione urbanistica tra tattica e strategia. Atti del Convegno Urbanpromo XXXIII. Roma-Milano, IT: Planum Publisher, 299-303.
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Ferraro G. (1991). La città nell'incertezza e la retorica del piano. Milano, IT: FrancoAngeli.
Gwiazdzinski, L. (2013). De l’hypothèse de réversibilité, à la ville malléable et augmentée vers un néo-situationnisme. In F. Sherrer & M.Vanier (Eds.), Villes, territoires, réversibilités, (205-219). Paris, FR: Editions Hermann,.
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Pradel, B. (2013). Processus de réversibilité et rythmes des transformations urbaines: penser la ville à pile ou face? in F. Sherrer & M. Vanier (Eds.), Villes, territoires, réversibilités, (237-247). Paris, FR: Editions Hermann.
Rana, A. & Calace, F. (2022). Pianificare nella città in contrazione. Urbanistica Informazioni, 306 s.i., 239-241.
Ryan, B. (2012). Design after decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Vegter, D. (2017). How to cope with urban shrinkage?. Honours Review, 9, 33-35.
Vidal, C. (2013), La réversibilité ou le pouvoir du mouvant, in F. Sherrer & M. Vanier (Eds.), Villes, territoires, réversibilités, (249-264). Paris, FR: Editions Hermann.
Wiechmann, T. & Pallagst, K.M. (2005). Shrinking smart: städtische Schrumpfungsprozesse in den USA. In N. Gestring (Ed.), Jahrbuch Stadtregion 2004/05, Schwerpunkt: Schrumpfende Staedte, (105-130). Wiesbaden, DE: VS Verlag.
Wiechmann, T. & Pallagst, K.M. (2012). Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA: a comparison of transformation patterns and local strategies. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36 (2), 261-280.
Wolff, M. (2011). Shrinking cities in Europe - Problems of data and methodes. Dortmund, DE: CIRES Training School 2011 - Mapping urban shrinking.
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Rana, A., & Calace, F. (2023). Planning the shrinking city. Some notes on reversibility in territorial government. UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & Environmental Design, 7(2), 19–30. https://doi.org/10.6093/2531-9906/10631
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