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Plenary Lecture

Planning the Shrinking Cities: New Approaches for the Twenty-First Century

Professor Francesco Rotondo
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Polytechnic University of Bari
Italy
E-mail: f.rotondo@poliba.it

Abstract: Shrinkage has increasingly become a “standard pathway” of urban and regional development in many European cities and regions. Shrinking is generally seen in the literature as a negative phenomenon: certain strategies may, however, trigger off positive effects, such as social networking opportunities, affordable housing, and increased sense of identity and opportunity change. Focusing on the effects of urban development should be seen as a priority, attempting to seize opportunities for the integration of a range of urban policies, making the most of scarce resources.
Facing the shrinkage it means changing our common approaches to urban planning, abandoning the growth paradigm in search of methods capable of generating a positive “De-Growth”, as Serge Latouche has defined it. Density, Quality, Greening, Sustainability, Participation, are the key words of such approach, to develop in the shrinking cities.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Francesco Rotondo graduated with a M.S. degree in Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy in 1999. From 2000 to 2003 He studied in the University of Pisa, Italy, and graduated in 2003 with a Ph.D. degree in Urban Planning (Sciences and Methods for the European cities and territories). Since then he has been a faculty member of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, serving as an adjunct professor from 2004until 2011. In the 2012 he has been a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineer and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, serving as an adjunct professor until now. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Transport Infrastructure at the University of Basilicata, Italy, serving as an adjunct professor from 2003 until 2012.
His research interests include urban planning and design, urban regeneration process, collaborative planning and inhabitants participation in urban planning and design, Information and Communication Technologies as tools to support Collaborative Planning.
He has participated to some European and National funded research such as Cost Actions (Towntology C21 and COST Action TU0803: Cities Re-growing Smaller - CIRES) or PRIN (research project of a national relevant interest funded by the Italian Ministry of Research).He is author of two books and more than 60 papers published in international and national journals and conference proceedings. He has also delivered keynote speeches at various international conferences.

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