Urban Spaces in the City of Climatic and Social Changes

Activities and institutional initiatives related to urban regeneration are now characterized by approaches that involve the environmental aspect, increasingly accompanied by objectives related to improving the liveability of cities, social inclusion and a mix of neighborhoods and cities. In this respect, there is a strong parallel between the approach also used in significant experiences and the words of the encyclical “Laudato si” of Pope Francis. Indeed, arguing that a true ecological approach is always a social approach (§ 49), the inseparability of the two aspects of development of the city is asserted. The framework in which this symbiosis finds its best combination is the urban space. Its centrality, in tune with what the Pope says (pp. 150, 151), is the goal of some instances of rethinking the city or parts thereof described in the paper.