Il welfare urbano attraverso cultura e mixitè sociale. Gli esempi di Medellín e Parigi

The theme of urban welfare, complex and characterized by a multiple reading of the concept, can be declined in various forms and aspects, however revolving around a specific instance: the request for a democratic diffusion of services, open and accessible to all, counting social mixing and the sharing of public resources. Two international examples, Medellín and Paris, testify today this willingness to spread services, increasingly open to fragile social classes or who have difficulty in accessing resources. Medellín reinterprets urban welfare considering the access to culture, through an integral territorial planning tool aimed at both urban regeneration and social regeneration, accomplishing it through policies of approach to culture and spread of services where parts of informal, spontaneously growing city, do not have it. Paris reads urban welfare according to social mixing and functional aspect in social housing: the new éco-quartiers regenerate large abandoned areas of Paris and turn them into new areas of social and economic attractiveness. The Parisian experience underlines the importance that government urban policies have in supporting social housing and sustainability issues for the construction of a regenerated city. It is through the provision of funds for the construction of functionally diversified social housing that it has been possible to equip an entire community with a new urban welfare, in an evolving perspective of sharing. In order to achieve urban welfare, therefore, there is the need of a capacity of an informal intervention for the realization of a widespread public services and a decisive and politically oriented public financial involvement for an action on the urban space able to transforming it into a common good.