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La ricerca Fearscapes affronta l'analisi delle relazioni tra sentimenti di paura – connessi al pericolo di essere vittime di crimine nello spazio urbano –, discorsi di paura – testi diretti alla generazione di sentimenti di paura –, politiche e pratiche urbane, forme spaziali della città contemporanea. A partire dagli anni '90, nelle città occidentali, ad una diminuzione dei volumi di criminalità corrispondono accresciute sensazioni di insicurezza. Nella convinzione che esista un uso strumentale dei discorsi di paura per giustificare politiche e pratiche, Fearscapes analizza, dal punto di vista della pianificazione urbana, questioni come le politiche urbane di sicurezza, processi di fortificazione, privatizzazione e militarizzazione dello spazio urbano.

Since the 1990s Italy has been going through changes and experiments concerning modes and tools of urban government. New methods, based on public-private partnership, on a consensual basis, were progressively adopted, overcoming the traditional authoritative mechanisms and role of public actors. The contribution of Community policies such as initiatives on urban areas, has been crucial in creating new tools, influencing the existing ones and activating new approaches to planning. This paper builds some theoretical considerations on the contributions the European Programmes' implementation has given to the changes in the conception of urban interventions and the debated shift in urban policies between "government" to "governance". The aim is to build a critical analysis about how the Urban 1 initiative acted as a "catalyst" for the evolution of urban practices, accelerating the innovation of the planning cultures and practices. The article examines three cities where Urban 1 Programme has been developed: Genoa, Naples and Palermo. The cases have been selected in order to catch the wider variety of interpretations of EU initiatives across Italy, fostering a critical discussion on EU programmes and their relationships with local planning policies.

Recent (European) comparative studies in the fields of housing policy and spatial planning have been dominated by taxonomical approaches (attempts at categorising systems and temporal stages of state action) and measures of the 'maturity' of national systems. In this paper, we adopt a genealogical perspective and consider (national and local) cultures central to the shaping of policy (differences and convergence). We set out a long-term, in-depth exploration of the planning-housing nexus in Portugal – a case that helps adding nuances to mainstream theorisation – and focus on the Programa Especial de Relojamento (PER; Special Programme for Rehousing), a programme that has had changing roles (from a financial instrument to a core component of policies of urban regeneration) in connection with political and planning cultures changing in time and space. Our goal is contributing to making sense of the intersection between planning cultures in transition and changing housing policy, namely the generalised shift toward regeneration and concurrent retrenchment of state action – and the relation among housing as welfare ('social housing policy') and housing as urban policy ('social policy for housing'). ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Recent European comparative studies in the fields of housing policy and spatial planning have been dominated by taxonomical and linear approaches, and by normative calls for convergence toward systems considered more 'mature' or 'advanced'. In this article, we adopt a genealogical perspective and consider those cultures that are central to the shaping of policy. We set out a long-term exploration of the intersection between spatial planning and housing policy in Portugal and focus on the Special Programme for Rehousing (Programa Especial de Realojamento, PER), a programme that has had changing roles (from a financial instrument to a core component of policies of urban regeneration) in connection with political and planning cultures changing in time and space. In this way, we provide evidence of the limited capacity of taxonomic and linear approaches to describe planning and housing systems undergoing processes of change and, conversely, show the potential of genealogical research. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion