As discussed in the previous chapter, neoliberal urban management and transformation fail to effectively address the current urban crisis. These initiatives often adopt a paternalistic, authoritarian, discriminatory, and anthropocentric approach, resulting in dangerous environmental imbalances, gentrification, people displacements, socio-spatial segregation and self-segregation, among other issues. These interventions also undermine the creation of “genuine public spaces” in our cities, hindering local struggles for recognition and the possibility of building fairer societies and cities. This raises the need for new theoretical and methodological approaches. Various alternatives are being developed in various cities worldwide, and this fourth chapter draws inspiration from some of these successful interventions, question the current definition of “urban regeneration,” and introduces the concept of “integral and recognitive urban regeneration.” The “integral and recognitive urban regeneration” is described as a “macro-process” that includes a series of community-based, cooperative, and mutualistic “urban regenerative micro-projects” aimed at transforming our publicly owned spaces into socio- and eco-sustainable and socio- and eco-regenerative “genuine public spaces” that serve as platforms for achieving a true “general well-being” in our cities and societies. It takes the axiological approach expressed by theorists of Recognition and addresses in an integral way all three dimensions of urban spaces as well as the three levels of social saying and social doing. This chapter will define the key objectives and operational stages of such processes and suggest some viable work instruments, keeping in mind the need to adapt them to the specific contexts, circumstances, and profiles of the participants involved.

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A Response to Current Urban Crisis: The “Integral and Recognitive Urban Regeneration”

  • Michaela De Marco

摘要

As discussed in the previous chapter, neoliberal urban management and transformation fail to effectively address the current urban crisis. These initiatives often adopt a paternalistic, authoritarian, discriminatory, and anthropocentric approach, resulting in dangerous environmental imbalances, gentrification, people displacements, socio-spatial segregation and self-segregation, among other issues. These interventions also undermine the creation of “genuine public spaces” in our cities, hindering local struggles for recognition and the possibility of building fairer societies and cities. This raises the need for new theoretical and methodological approaches. Various alternatives are being developed in various cities worldwide, and this fourth chapter draws inspiration from some of these successful interventions, question the current definition of “urban regeneration,” and introduces the concept of “integral and recognitive urban regeneration.” The “integral and recognitive urban regeneration” is described as a “macro-process” that includes a series of community-based, cooperative, and mutualistic “urban regenerative micro-projects” aimed at transforming our publicly owned spaces into socio- and eco-sustainable and socio- and eco-regenerative “genuine public spaces” that serve as platforms for achieving a true “general well-being” in our cities and societies. It takes the axiological approach expressed by theorists of Recognition and addresses in an integral way all three dimensions of urban spaces as well as the three levels of social saying and social doing. This chapter will define the key objectives and operational stages of such processes and suggest some viable work instruments, keeping in mind the need to adapt them to the specific contexts, circumstances, and profiles of the participants involved.