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The theme of urban welfare, complex and characterized by a multiple reading of the concept, can be declined in various forms and aspects, however revolving around a specific instance: the request for a democratic diffusion of services, open and accessible to all, counting social mixing and the sharing of public resources. Two international examples, Medellín and Paris, testify today this willingness to spread services, increasingly open to fragile social classes or who have difficulty in accessing resources. Medellín reinterprets urban welfare considering the access to culture, through an integral territorial planning tool aimed at both urban regeneration and social regeneration, accomplishing it through policies of approach to culture and spread of services where parts of informal, spontaneously growing city, do not have it. Paris reads urban welfare according to social mixing and functional aspect in social housing: the new éco-quartiers regenerate large abandoned areas of Paris and turn them into new areas of social and economic attractiveness. The Parisian experience underlines the importance that government urban policies have in supporting social housing and sustainability issues for the construction of a regenerated city. It is through the provision of funds for the construction of functionally diversified social housing that it has been possible to equip an entire community with a new urban welfare, in an evolving perspective of sharing. In order to achieve urban welfare, therefore, there is the need of a capacity of an informal intervention for the realization of a widespread public services and a decisive and politically oriented public financial involvement for an action on the urban space able to transforming it into a common good.

The River Contract is a little-known practice and an unconventional planning procedure but an opportunity in many Italian Regions to overcome the problems of coherence between levels of Government and to promote participation. The River Contract is a voluntary agreement of strategic and negotiated planning, aiming the protection, proper management of water resources, recovery, and enhancement of the river territories, together with flood protection, contributing to the local development of such areas. In 2017, in Rome, started the procedure for the River Contract by Agenda Tevere Onlus. This paper illustrates a practice-oriented research built by multidisciplinary approach and a method able to mix cultural and participatory knowledge. Because the Tiber is the river of Rome, the research aims to raise the possibility of enhancing the strategic and fundamental role of the Tiber in relation to the City through four key issues: the urban landscape, because the Tiber is intrinsically related with the city; the public space, because the Tiber must be a good of the city; the sustainable use, because the Tiber must be for the city; the active participation, because the interventions on the Tiber must be shared in the city by those who live and work in Rome.