- Experiences of new strategic Projects in Palermo (Italy)    43 kb by    Giampino, Annalisa & Todaro, Vincenzo | annalisagiampino@inwind.it    Short Outline This paper discusses the following: 1)Relations between traditional planning and new strategic instruments; 2)Identify scenarios that address strategies and actions and the synergies between instruments and policies, actors and subjects; 3)Relation between public/private actors. Abstract The new generation of strategic urban projects has inaugurated one different modality of institutional and spatial management for the complexity of the contemporary city. The traditional models of public policy have been replaced from new modalities of public-private interventation for regeneration the urban districts degradeted. These tools define new strategies of urban interventetion including processes and effects of complex physical urban trasformations. Many sicilian cities are today characterized by heavy level of social and phisical isolation; this problem play a central role in the definition of innovate approaches to the urban planning. At a distance fifteen years from the first experimentations in Sicily, the present paper means to estimate the controversial issues of the strategic urban projects activated in the city of Palermo. The attention will focused on the relationship between the original intentions and the issues concretely obtained. The sicilian city compose a corpus of ''active resources'' to preserve and value through the coherent instruments of planning, policies and local actions. Keywords Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2007: Urban Trialogues   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper