1999-2013: on the pages of “Inforum” 15 years of debate on the rebirth of the city

Abstract

On the beginning of the new millennium the regional administration decided to promote an “urban renewal of the metropolitan system”, related to the network of small and medium centers that characterizes the Emilia-Romagna territory. At the base of this ambitious program was the awareness that in order to address the problems of the cities, specific  integrated projects to be shared with the territory are needed and therefore a tool like a newsletter to spread ideas, to grow the local professionals, public administrators and technicians on new complex programs. Through the reinterpretation of the 40 published issues of the magazine “Inforum”, this contribution proposes a reflection on the experience of the last fifteen years and the evolution of the concepts of “urban renewal” coined in the Nineties and nowadays close to a more integrated idea of “regeneration”.