Nourhan Hamdy (Italy)
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio di Calabria, Italy
PAU-Patrimonio Architettura e Territorio
Nourhan Hamdy is a Ph.D student at Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria in Italy. She studies Urban Regeneration and focuses on investigating the forces that design the regional geography of innovation flows. Nourhan is a part of the team that works at the CLUDs Lab which is part of the PAU Department of the Università degli Studi Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria. CLUDS Lab mainly focuses on the physical and spatial transformations of cities and territories generated by the ongoing socio-economic dynamics. It operates in the field of urban regeneration and local sustainable development with the aim to understand the complexity of local dynamics by exploring new data-driven approaches. Nourhan also is a member of SOUND Project which is funded by the National PRIN Program 2017 (Progetti di Ricerca di rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Italian Minister of University Research and education – MIUR). Her contribution to SOUND project lies in setting up an analytical process that is based on network analysis to understand traded industry Clusters' performance and highlight the spatial implications in knowledge dynamics.

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DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION AND COMMUNITY-BASED URBAN REGENERATION IN CALABRIA

Session Name
0240 - Academic Sessions - Resilient 03: Resilient coastal landscapes, urban deltas ports (ID 54)
Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/23/2022
Session Time
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room

Hall C

Presenter
Lecture Time
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

Abstract

Abstract Body

Community-Based Urban Development is an inclusive approach for local service provision and management. Itfacilitates partnerships between urban communities and local governments. Many scholars have argued thatinstitutionalization does not succeed in matching the demand for services expressed by the local communities.Therefore, there has been an engagement among European and national policy to replace institutions with family-based and community-based alternatives. In Italy, the area plans (Piani di zona) are supposed to deliver servicesaccording to local needs, since 2000. However, Calabria still lacks initiatives to support policy actions, associatedwith deinstitutionalization, to dominate the development and “modernization” of services for citizens.
This paper is part of research activities conducting within the SOUND and TREnD projects, that interprets thecontemporary city as a complex system managed by the interchange of relationships between the physicalenvironment and the social environment, whose survival depends on the ability of individuals, communities,institutions, companies, and systems within it to adapt and grow, regardless of the type of chronological stress andacute shocks they undergo.
Our work aims at proposing a new paradigm of community-based urban regeneration, respecting the principles ofinclusiveness, equity, and urban accessibility. It also aims at overcoming the limitations of earlier urbandevelopment by emerging the partnership between the region and civil society through open innovation.
The proposed methodological approach is based on the combination of two strategies: the application of urbanresilience strategies, to analyze the sources of vulnerability at community-urban level and the application of theprinciples of transition towards sustainability to guide every action towards the offer of the services necessary toraise the quality of life of the urban community. Subsequentially, proposing a series of adaptive and concretestrategies and defining a series of indicators, as a tool to verify the impact of the intervention on the community.

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