Urban regeneration processes of public housing in the Mediterranean area: a multiscale and multi-system approach

The theme of urban regeneration of public housing settlements, where disadvantaged and often marginalized communities live, has gained increasing attention in the last decade also in Italy and several studies have been conducted in the Mediterranean area with the aim of identify methodologies of analysis and project synthesis and specific solutions of intervention. In particular, in Covid-19 and post-Covid conditions the assurance of healthy living conditions has been and continues to be a known determinant of discrimination in health and social inequalities. As public housing settlements have been among the most affected by this kind of inequality, it is increasingly urgent to investigate the physical, social and economic determinants that affect citizens’ health. In this context, this research is the result of multidisciplinary work conducted within PDTA Department, Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome relative to the development of methodologies of environmental technological intervention that can build a shared language and approach on the theme of "urban regeneration”, understood as operation at the level of urban space and building construction to improve quality not only of architecture, but also of life and well-being of the population of many public housing districts built between the '70s and '90s in the Mediterranean area that present strong social and environmental hardships.