Dipartimento Patrimonio, Architettura, Urbanistica

Degree course
Course code
Lecturer / Carmelina Bevilacqua
Course name / Urban regeneration and economic development
Disciplinary area / Urban Planning
Disciplinary field of science / Urban planning, real estate and urban economics
University credits - ECTS / 6
Teaching hours / 60
Course year / 2015-2016
Semester / I
Course entry requirements
Prerequisites and basic knowledge: Basics of urban planning and scaling of the plan. Development of socioeconomic and urban analysis for master plan. Basics of descriptive statistics.
Course programme
The Class in Urban Regeneration and Public Private Partnership aims to enhance the competencies in urban planning with respect the design and management of urban transformations dealing with the evolution of urban regeneration policy and strategies. The focus will be the interactions of transformations with different forms of public private partnership also through a comparative analysis of European and US case studies. The lectures will be articulated in the following:
• Planning Theory and Public Policy Analysis: Why Urban Planning implies the need of Public Policy Analysis. What means “public policy analysis”? How a public policy becomes an action in urban plan?
• Urban Growth vs. Urban regeneration - Land Use regulation (zoning, mixitè uses, mixitè icome, social balance)
• Urban Growth vs. Urban regeneration – Public private partnership (the role of no-profit, business improvement and job creation).
Expected results
The expected results are related to the 4 educational objectives set in order to improve knowledge for practitioners in urban regeneration policy and projects:
1. To acquire competence in innovative contexts (built environment, fiscal measures, financial market, local economic development) of urban planning
2. To acquire competence in using urban management instruments in urban regeneration initiatives in order to build master plan for the contemporary city.
3. To acquire competence in using different form of Public Private Partnership in urban regeneration initiatives.
4. To acquire competence to define the contemporary urban plan as synthesis of the demand of urban transformation.
Course structure and teaching
The course is articulated in 4 parts according to the four educational objectives:
1°. educational objective: - 2 modules
a. Module: The technical construction of decision
- The transition from an authoritative model to an incremental model - the governance of the plan
- The transition from the organization for zoning to the structural definition of the Urban Plan
- The shift from higher-level hierarchies to build levels of administrative integration, design and financial aspects
b. module: The construction of the main structure of urban and territorial transformations
- The shift from functional to strategic use of resources
- Characterization of the proactive strategic approach and its spatial transposition
- Land use regulation, real estate: zoning vs. Strategic Plan as product of shared vision of partnership processes;
2°. educational objective - 2 modules
a. module: Strategic control of urban transformation
- The time horizon of strategic choices: short, medium and long term
- The construction of scenarios depending on the time horizons
- The construction of scenarios depending on the environmental, social economic and financial
b. module: urban regeneration
- The analysis of the complexity of the phenomena ascribed to the contemporary city
- The transformation of the analysis in planning driver at different scales with respect different decision-making levels.
- The built of social activation in order to balance the competitive concentration with the distribution of the value added generated.
- The involvement of the community as main factor in defining innovative instruments of integration planning.
3°. educational objective - 2 modules
a. module: Public Private Partnerships
- The involvement of “developers” and “managers”
- The profit of the private sector and the social sustainability
- The role of no profit in PPPs
b. module: evaluation of programmes, plans and projects
- The role of feasibility studies in urban regeneration initiatives
- The economic analysis and the quality in urban transformation initiatives.
- The environmental sustainability.
4°. educational objective - 2 modules
a. module: the contemporary urban plan/project/design
- The urban issues that drive towards innovative approaches
- The Evolution of urban regeneration policy: from urban renewal to urban regeneration within the urban sustainable development;
- The conceptual frame of urban regeneration policy and plans.
b. approaches and comparative analysis of current practices in urban regeneration
- Urban regeneration rationale as common factor among different countries and cities
- Representative experiences:
i. Belfast: the urban regeneration policy to combat social conflicts
ii. Bilbao: urban regeneration policy to drive the cultural and productive vision of the city
iii. Paris: urban regeneration with “la defense” to create new urban centralities
iv. Lille: urban regeneration as a new criterion of urban form trough the flows.
Student’s independent work
The student shall prepare specific presentation during the course, with respect the arguments of each four parties.
Testing and exams
Mid-term examination: 4 presentations (es. Power point) to be discussed in class.
Final examination: elaboration of urban regeneration case study to present during the interview.
Suggested reading materials

Urban Regeneration in Europe (Real Estate Issues) Paperback – June 4, 2003 by Chris Couch (Editor), Charles Fraser (Editor), Susan Percy (Editor) ISBN-13: 978-0632058419 ISBN-10: 0632058412 Edition: 1st. Published by Blackwell

The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from Gentrification Research by Tom Slater Volume 30.4 December 2006 737–57 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00689.x © 2006 The Author. Journal Compilation © 2006 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published by Blackwell

www.cluds-7fp.unirc.it

First scientific report: Economic development strategies. The role of Public Private Partnership – Edited by Carmelina Bevilacqua www.cluds-7fp.unirc.it

Second Scientific Report: Sustanable Urban Development. The role of urban-rural rational in regional context – Edited by Carmelina Bevilacqua www.cluds-7fp.unirc.it