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Questa nota parte da una illustrazione e da un commento al libro di G. Avallone "La sociologia urbana e rurale. Origini e sviluppi in Italia", per proporre una riflessione sulle prospettive future della sociologia del territorio. Riflettendo sulla evoluzione della disciplina nell'arco di oltre un secolo, che il libro ricostruisce, si indicano alcuni sfide fondamentali che essa ha di fronte a sé nell'immediato futuro, tanto dal punto di vista teorico, quanto da quello della sua rilevanza sociale.

-This work proposes some critical considerations about the effective participation level in Italian Strategic Planning. It focuses on participation and governance models in the actual Italian experiences, stressing their problems and their possible alternative and outlining some possible future results for Italian Strategic Planning, with a particular widespread outlook to other processes now developing in some Italian Regions territorial planning experience. Keywords: Urban governance. Public deliberation and participation, empowerment, inclusive design, neo-corporativism. Italian Metropolitan Cities and Areas: Turin case, by Giorgia Bella This work concerns the Italian discussion about metropolitan cities and areas, with a particular attention to Turin. The author focuses on the state of art of the formal constitution of Turin Metropolitan Area (AMT) borders, with particular respect to the strategic lines given by the First and the Second Strategic Plan and considering the internal political debate about possible overlaps between different institutional levels (for example metropolitan government and Provincial government) generated by the creation of the AMT, that could perhaps engender a reorganization of the regional territorial system in the end.

Chapter 1. Differences and inequalities in contemporary cities: a spatial perspective -- Chapter 2. Understanding social exclusion -- Chapter 3. Keyword of social inequalities -- Chapter 4. Identities, exclusions and space -- Chapter 5. Participation in policies against urban social exclusion

Within wider criticalthoughts on and inside international cooperation, in this contribution some reflections are made about possible approaches to evaluate the effects of cooperation actions onto recipient populations. Starting from an experience of academically-led indepentent cooperation in a rural internal area of El Salvador, Central America, a debate is stimulated on how international cooperation can avoid forcing the beneficiary populations, and instead really and solely serve the interests of the recipients: their strategic empowerment and – above all – their self-determination. ; Dentro de reflexiónes más amplias sobre and adentro la cooperación internacional, en esta contribución se comentan una posibles estrategias de evaluación de las acciónes cooperativas sobre las poblaciónes receptoras. A partire de una experiencia de cooperación independiente guiada por subjectos academicos en una región rural interna de El Salvador, America Central, se estimula a un debate sobre cómo la cooperación internacional pueda evitar forzar las poblaciónes beneficiarias y, al contrario, servir realmente y únicamentelos interéses de las poblaciónes receptoras: su fortalecimiento estratégico y – sobre todo – su autodeterminación.

Recent developments in the field of urban analysis and management are investigated in this book. It is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the subject drawn from a long-term project and seminar, held in Italy, to review the state of the art and speculate on the future influence on the "sciences of the city" of the complexity concept. Of particular interest is the variety of points of view, often contrasting, and the attempt to go beyond the conventional approaches to the analysis, and the planning of the city. While focussing mainly on the European (and in particular Italian) context, the discussion is of general relevance and valuable to anyone concerned with the prospects for the city in the new millenium