Regenerar la ciudad espontánea. El Programa Integrado de Torre del Fiscale

The paper contributes to the reflection on strategies and tools aimed at the regeneration of settlements that have arisen as a result of unplanned settlement dynamics, with particular reference to those located in correspondence with important cultural heritage persistences. It focuses on the city of Rome (Italy) where, since the late 19th century, such dynamics have affected its morphological and functional aspects. The Piano Regolatore Generale di Roma Capitale (PRG) in force pursues, for these settlements, a reconfiguration strategy aimed at the enhancement of urban quality, local identity, public spaces, services and infrastructures, and at the connection of the environmental system within the tissues with the extra-urban open spaces, reversing the paradigms of the urban regeneration strategy. The PRogramma INTegrato di INTervento (PRINT) is the implementation tool indicated by the PRG for the regeneration of these settlements, in that it provides for the fielding of a multiplicity of functions and types of intervention, it allows for the competition of public and private operators to finance, realise and manage the public works identified, and it involves areas of such a size as to affect the urban reorganisation. The paper analyses as a case study the urbanistic area of Tor Fiscale, in the south-east quadrant of Rome, which has been spontaneously formed since the mid 1940s and is now affected by an Integrated Programme. An enclave stretching within the Appia Antica Regional Park, with fragmentary and chaotic settlement characteristics, in a historical-archaeological and environmental landscape of great value.