The research programme CoUrbIT (Complex Urban Investment Tools) assumes the public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the driver of urban change. As far as the intervention models are concerned, CoUrbIT distinguishes the initiatives regarding the physical environment – via recover, redevelopment, renewal and framework models – and those regarding mainly the community – via models defined as gentrification, revitalization and regeneration. The paper borrows from the CoUrbIT research the working hypothesis that the quality of urban change is in a determining manner, the result of the public sector’s ability as well as that of the private sector - each of which is structured in a plurality of entities - interacting and establishing cooperative forms which are able to produce competitive advantages for the city. On the basis of this assumption, the Italian context is explored through the analysis of a number of case studies. In relation to the CoUrbIT models, the paper finds out if the action of the public and private sectors tends to establish extensive and innovative partnership forms, and what results are achieved by these partnerships. The case studies characteristics are investigated by means of quantitative analysis when they can be measured using technical or economic units. Furthermore, the rough set approach is adopted as analytical procedure, given its suitability to deal with both small-sized databases and data expressed mainly in the form of categories without an order of preference. The following elements emerge as relevant: the nature of the collaboration between different public entities aimed at the definition of town planning procedures, at acquiring the real-estate for the intervention, or at sharing the start up costs; the peculiarity of institutionalised partnerships, which in many Italian cases are slow to open up to private entities; the methods and procedures for the involvement of private entities through competition and negotiation.
Urban Models in Italy: Partnership Forms, Territorial Contexts, Tools, Results
STANGHELLINI, STEFANO;COPIELLO, SERGIO
2011-01-01
Abstract
The research programme CoUrbIT (Complex Urban Investment Tools) assumes the public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the driver of urban change. As far as the intervention models are concerned, CoUrbIT distinguishes the initiatives regarding the physical environment – via recover, redevelopment, renewal and framework models – and those regarding mainly the community – via models defined as gentrification, revitalization and regeneration. The paper borrows from the CoUrbIT research the working hypothesis that the quality of urban change is in a determining manner, the result of the public sector’s ability as well as that of the private sector - each of which is structured in a plurality of entities - interacting and establishing cooperative forms which are able to produce competitive advantages for the city. On the basis of this assumption, the Italian context is explored through the analysis of a number of case studies. In relation to the CoUrbIT models, the paper finds out if the action of the public and private sectors tends to establish extensive and innovative partnership forms, and what results are achieved by these partnerships. The case studies characteristics are investigated by means of quantitative analysis when they can be measured using technical or economic units. Furthermore, the rough set approach is adopted as analytical procedure, given its suitability to deal with both small-sized databases and data expressed mainly in the form of categories without an order of preference. The following elements emerge as relevant: the nature of the collaboration between different public entities aimed at the definition of town planning procedures, at acquiring the real-estate for the intervention, or at sharing the start up costs; the peculiarity of institutionalised partnerships, which in many Italian cases are slow to open up to private entities; the methods and procedures for the involvement of private entities through competition and negotiation.
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