Free spaces vs socio-spatial segregation: an UIA-Masterplan for Tor Sapienza

In the Italian cities, inequalities, conflicts and related forms of social and spatial segregation are increasing by drawing areas that are even more difficult to design through the traditional urban planning tools. The need of identifying effective ways to intervene in increasingly complex situations – in which urban areas with exasperated forms of degradation, abuse and abandonment prevail – suggested to analyze contexts of structural conflict such as Palestine, to recognize and treat forms of spatial segregation present in some strongly degraded peripheries of Rome. Therefore, against the background of a wide theoretical reflection, a proposal was drafted to design a new urban structure for Tor Sapienza that, instead of dealing only with the surface of problems (degradation, forms of abuse, fragmentation). - thanks to the acknowledgement acquired in the Palestinian context – takes seriously the detailed reading of the forms of spatial segregation and the conflicts that generate them, by proposing a Master plan in the Innovative Urban Action Program with a system of tangible and intangible actions aim to: a) Recompose the geographical fragmentation and social; b) Promoting socio-cultural integration; c) Support the development of local and circular economies, based on a set of strategic material and intangible planning actions.