Ruralità urbana nei quartieri ERP: processi agricoli di partecipazione

The article highlights the possible decision-making processes of the community of the public housing (ERP), for the care of the open spaces surrounding. Participatory processes analyzed belong to the theme of the production of goods from the public space, that is how to capitalize on the pertaining space available. In the contemporary fi nancial and social crisis, the margins improving the welfare of citizens, ERP’s users, are being eroded by the scarcity of resources of the institutions managers. That deterioration of the public housing buildings is, after all, small compared to the total abandonment of the open spaces facing the buildings. Consequently the green spaces, conceived by designers such as quality standard, but now in bad conditions, amplify the inadequacy and degradation of the ERP. Redeveloping these spaces, giving them a function productive and socially inclusive is aim of the analysis of the peri-urban neighborhoods of major Italian and European cities.