The concluding essay reads the contributions collected in the special issue as an invitation to follow urban planning where it concretely takes place: in the in-between space among plans, projects, rules, social practices, procedures and administrative decisions. Starting from the questions that structured the Urbanpromo 2025 seminar - how to make space, who occupies space, and which mechanisms regulate space - the text highlights the role of less visible but decisive devices through which urban transformation is enabled, negotiated, evaluated or blocked. The essay proposes the notion of urbanistica di sotto as a research and action agenda focused on regulations, procedures, routines, protocols, indicators, offices, agreements, maintenance practices and situated knowledge that shape the ordinary production of urban space. This perspective does not oppose lower-level practices to strategic planning. Instead, it investigates how statutory planning and everyday implementation can work together, strengthening coherence, transparency, institutional learning, equity and public responsibility in the transformation of contemporary cities.
This article provides a critical and thematically structured literature review of Envi-ronmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) urbanism as it intersects with the right to the city, green gentrification, affordable housing, public-private partnerships, and partici-patory governance. Drawing from 52 scholarly and researc...
Américo Juan Tito Aliaga, Delfor Americo Tito Aquino, Hannan Vilchis Zubizarreta· Real Estate· 0 citations
The editorial introduces the special issue Fare spazio, dare spazio in urbanistica, developed from the Urbanpromo 2025 seminar held in Florence. It frames the two expressions as complementary disciplinary postures: fare spazio refers to the need to open margins of interpretation, adaptation and action within and beyond...
C. Pisano, G. De Luca· Contesti. Città, territori,...· 0 citations
This essay analyses the moment of (re)production of urban space, particularly public space, in a scenario where spatial patterns are incrementally subjected to referential frameworks shaped by the global process of capital’s predominance over public life. Likewise, the public scope of urban space confronts a socio-tech...
Manoel R. Alves· Seminario Internacional de I...· 1 citation
In the face of multiple crises municipalities are confronted with complex transformations that challenge established modes of planning. In the absence of adaptive, integrative, and reflexive tools, they turn towards communicative and experimental formats. Rather than representing a paradigmatic shift, these formats fun...
Jana Weber, Anke Klaever, Samuel Mössner· Urban Transformations· 0 citations
The doctoral thesis from which this document is derived aimed to identify the qualities, potentialities, and challenges of contemporary activist practices in the social production of public spaces at the neighborhood scale, with the goal of valuing these practices and exploring possible convergences with urban planning...
Johana Hernández Araque· Seminario Internacional de I...· 0 citations
Starting from a critique of modernist urbanism for neglecting the needs of marginalized populations and favoring the concentration of power and wealth, this study examines urban resistance processes that challenge the exclusionary logic of current urbanism. The work presents alternatives to urban planning, highlighting...
Vinícius Galvão Ramos, Martha Machado Campos· Seminario Internacional de I...· 0 citations
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