Le città alla prova della pandemia. Percorsi per rafforzare gli anticorpi urbani

Many contributions on the issues of the relationship between cities and pandemics often focus on an analysis of the effects (social, health, economic, urban, etc.) of the pandemic and their spatial distribution, rightly raising numerous and important problems. Alongside these analyses, it is important to develop paths with which to face the situation, also going beyond some slogans that propose solutions that are in many cases difficult to practice in our urban contexts. In addition to a reflection on the urban inequalities produced by the pandemic, the contribution aims to indicate some policies and some actions that have been activated in the Roman context to face the situation generated by the pandemic, but more generally to rethink the organization of the city, interpreting the suburbs as fully-fledged “pieces of the city” and developing an integrated approach to local development with the territories. The state of progress, in terms of policies and actions, of the proposal for “municipal workshops” and “civic centres”, thought as “local centralities” to support local urban organization, developed in the Roman context is therefore considered. These are places of reference, widespread in the neighbourhoods (starting with the ERP ones), aimed at the development of projects and actions, but above all at the dialogue and collaboration between different subjects: institutions and public administrations, agencies and service bodies, inhabitants and their organizations, trade union representatives, economic operators. The “municipal workshops”, in particular, are shared places for work, organized territorially (with reference to the neighbourhoods), where both individual workers and groups of workers of the same company or structure can find space.