Thesis title: Risorse comunitarie e pianificazione urbanistica: l’innovazione del Piano locale per la riduzione delle disuguaglianze urbane
This research, developed within the framework of the PhD in Planning, Architecture Technology – Planning Curriculum, arises from a personal interest in the ethical and social issues inherent to urban planning. Urban planning is understood as a discipline with strong social purposes, aimed at planning that seeks to promote the development of the city as a place of social integration and exchange, a place of equal opportunities in terms of quality public spaces, infrastructure, and services, and a place where the well-being of residents is guaranteed. These themes play a structural role in the disciplinary landscape, starting from the identification of the “new urban issue” of the contemporary city, defined by various problems, among which the growing socio-spatial and economic inequalities in urban areas assume a significant role. The contemporary city appears, in fact, as the place where increasing inequalities are most strongly manifested. Different urban areas (especially the peripheral ones) are characterized by the presence of degradation both from a physical-functional and socio-perceptual point of view, and as a result, the low degree of "habitability" of certain parts of the city is entirely evident and explicit. The research, starting from the identification of problems related to urban socio-spatial and economic inequalities, identifies community resources as an opportunity to intervene in the most disadvantaged urban areas. However, there are several issues related to the use of community resources, including the relationship between local urban planning tools and the conditions imposed by the European Commission for the use of funds. The research, engaging in the scientific debate on the topic, investigates the possibility of innovating the local urban plan to seize the opportunities that community resources offer, in order to implement interventions capable of addressing the growing urban socio-spatial and economic inequalities in a coherent and integrated manner, rather than following a molecular and enzymatic approach, with the goal of completing structural and transformative interventions in the most disadvantaged urban areas.