A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH TO THE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF RESIDUAL URBAN AREAS: A NEW ORDER BETWEEN VALUES, FUNCTIONS AND SOCIAL ACTORS

Our cities are often characterized by a complex, ungrammatical articulation of spaces, volumes, uses and values. The disorder or urban empty in terms of functions and values can be considered as the result of the absence or wrong planning and/or management and existence of asymmetries between the public and private values. In particular, urban residual areas are representative of a low level or absence of order, functions, but above all of values. A process to reduce the physical, functional and use asymmetries, but and mostly, those of values, can be carried out by promoting a new approach to the upgrading of marginal urban areas. The new approach must be able to generate a new order between values, functions, actors and capitals, to mediate private needs with those public, to promote new forms of accountability, management and financing on the base of a new set of shared values.