Participated Strategies for Small Towns
Regeneration. The Case of Oliena (Nu)
Historic Centre
Laura Daglio, Giuseppe Boi and Roberto Podda
Abstract Dealing with the issue of depopulation and abandonment of villages and
small towns in Italy and Europe is amongst the goals of the economic and social
policies aimed at investigating and experimenting new strategies for the regeneration
and reactivation of urban space. An extensive literature collects researches aimed
at analysing the problem, exploring diverse management and design approaches,
alternative measures to stop the phenomenon and innovative legislative incentives and
economic tools. This paper has the aim of reporting an ongoing research experience
concerning participated solutions aimed at developing new possible models for the
regeneration of Oliena’s historic centre, in Sardinia.
Keywords Participatory design · Depopulation · Historic villages · Regeneration
strategies
1 Background
Forestalling population decline and the abandonment of small towns in Italy and
in Europe is the goal of economic and social policies aimed at investigating strategies for the re-qualification and reactivation of urban space. An extensive literature
endorses researches intended at exploring management, typological and technological approaches (Castagneto and Fiore 2013), new possible programs (Di Figlia 2016)
and innovative legislative and economic tools (Flora and Crucianelli 2013; Maietti
2008).
L. Daglio (B)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: laura.daglio@polimi.it
G. Boi
Milan, Italy
R. Podda
Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, Suzohu, China
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_10
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Regeneration. The Case of Oliena (Nu)
Historic Centre
Laura Daglio, Giuseppe Boi and Roberto Podda
Abstract Dealing with the issue of depopulation and abandonment of villages and
small towns in Italy and Europe is amongst the goals of the economic and social
policies aimed at investigating and experimenting new strategies for the regeneration
and reactivation of urban space. An extensive literature collects researches aimed
at analysing the problem, exploring diverse management and design approaches,
alternative measures to stop the phenomenon and innovative legislative incentives and
economic tools. This paper has the aim of reporting an ongoing research experience
concerning participated solutions aimed at developing new possible models for the
regeneration of Oliena’s historic centre, in Sardinia.
Keywords Participatory design · Depopulation · Historic villages · Regeneration
strategies
1 Background
Forestalling population decline and the abandonment of small towns in Italy and
in Europe is the goal of economic and social policies aimed at investigating strategies for the re-qualification and reactivation of urban space. An extensive literature
endorses researches intended at exploring management, typological and technological approaches (Castagneto and Fiore 2013), new possible programs (Di Figlia 2016)
and innovative legislative and economic tools (Flora and Crucianelli 2013; Maietti
2008).
L. Daglio (B)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: laura.daglio@polimi.it
G. Boi
Milan, Italy
R. Podda
Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, Suzohu, China
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_10
89