In contemporary literature on housing and neighborhood planning a shift in the role of the public actor from provider to supporter of public facilities can be observed. As a matter of fact, public facilities and spaces are often regenerated or managed by institutions and social actors mixed partnerships. Contemporarily, in public opinion, housing is meant always more as a public good than a welfare policy concerning disadvantaged social groups. Recently, the increasing responsibility of the public actor as enabler of different kinds of subjects can be also read as an effort by learning institutions to react to the current crisis. Public actors are challenging themselves experimenting a new role, which forces them to change governing strategies and to discuss certainties of the past. Is the raise of a “support paradigm” the outcome of a neoliberal drift aiming at dismantling welfare policies or a bet on the capacity to aspire of local inhabitants? Is the public actor ready to learn from neighborhood practices taking place in public spaces? How can the planner deal with this changing situation? This contribution aims to answer these questions reporting on an action research activity carried out in 2013-14 in the framework of the project “(Wel)fare Comunità a Scampia", according to the agreement between the Town Council of Naples and the Foundation with the South. The project is focused on how to manage the park of the neighborhood of Scampia, located in Northern Naples public city, working as a further barrier dividing the neighborhood, in addition to the stigmatized symptoms of crime and illegality. The traditional “provider paradigm”, experienced from the construction of the park (1986-1992) until the beginning of the XXI century, was incapable to solve the problem to enjoy the park as a common good. A new approach relying on local resources, emerging in public spaces and leaning against territorial resilience, could give results where public action alone failed.

When neighborhood practices are the breeding ground. Public space as welfare space in Scampia / Palestino, MARIA FEDERICA; Berruti, Gilda. - e-book of abstracts:(2014), pp. 404-404. (Intervento presentato al convegno AESOP 2014 Congress From Control to Co-Evolution tenutosi a Utrecht nel 9-12 luglio).

When neighborhood practices are the breeding ground. Public space as welfare space in Scampia

PALESTINO, MARIA FEDERICA;BERRUTI, GILDA
2014

Abstract

In contemporary literature on housing and neighborhood planning a shift in the role of the public actor from provider to supporter of public facilities can be observed. As a matter of fact, public facilities and spaces are often regenerated or managed by institutions and social actors mixed partnerships. Contemporarily, in public opinion, housing is meant always more as a public good than a welfare policy concerning disadvantaged social groups. Recently, the increasing responsibility of the public actor as enabler of different kinds of subjects can be also read as an effort by learning institutions to react to the current crisis. Public actors are challenging themselves experimenting a new role, which forces them to change governing strategies and to discuss certainties of the past. Is the raise of a “support paradigm” the outcome of a neoliberal drift aiming at dismantling welfare policies or a bet on the capacity to aspire of local inhabitants? Is the public actor ready to learn from neighborhood practices taking place in public spaces? How can the planner deal with this changing situation? This contribution aims to answer these questions reporting on an action research activity carried out in 2013-14 in the framework of the project “(Wel)fare Comunità a Scampia", according to the agreement between the Town Council of Naples and the Foundation with the South. The project is focused on how to manage the park of the neighborhood of Scampia, located in Northern Naples public city, working as a further barrier dividing the neighborhood, in addition to the stigmatized symptoms of crime and illegality. The traditional “provider paradigm”, experienced from the construction of the park (1986-1992) until the beginning of the XXI century, was incapable to solve the problem to enjoy the park as a common good. A new approach relying on local resources, emerging in public spaces and leaning against territorial resilience, could give results where public action alone failed.
2014
When neighborhood practices are the breeding ground. Public space as welfare space in Scampia / Palestino, MARIA FEDERICA; Berruti, Gilda. - e-book of abstracts:(2014), pp. 404-404. (Intervento presentato al convegno AESOP 2014 Congress From Control to Co-Evolution tenutosi a Utrecht nel 9-12 luglio).
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