Stefano Moroni

Matteo Poli

Paolo Bossi

La città e il tempo: interpretazione e azione

Marco Ponti

Francesco Ramella

Il settore dei trasporti è caratterizzato da un intervento e da una spesa pubblica rilevanti. La necessità dell’intervento dello Stato in tale ambito è generalmente data per scontata; spesso ritenuta inevitabile alla luce di obsolete convinzioni, mai riviste nonostante i radicali cambiamenti sociali e tecnologici sopravvenuti. Ma è davvero tanto indispensabile l'intervento dello Stato? E, se sì, è bene che avvenga con i margini di discrezionalità correnti? Questo libro mostra come la necessità dell’intervento dello Stato non sia affatto ovvia e debba essere invece sempre provata. Se si ricorre al settore pubblico, peraltro, è necessario che la sua azione sia vincolata da regole, e non caratterizzata dalla piena discrezionalità. Se l’azione pubblica è del tutto imprevedibile, anche investitori e cittadini agiranno in condizioni di costante incertezza e faranno a loro volta scelte sbagliate.

Sperperi e abusi nel settore dei trasporti: che fare?

L'arbitrio del Principe

David Emanuel Andersson

Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Anderss

Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs

Cities and Private Planning

Claudia Basta

The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, planning theory and architecture. The scope of the seminar was highlighting shared lines of ethical inquiry among the themes discussed, in order to identify perspectives of innovative interdisciplinary research. After the seminar all seminar participants have elaborated their proposed contributions. Some of the most prominent international authors in the field were subsequently invited to join in with this inquiry. Claudia Basta teaches "Network Infrastructures and Mobility" at Wageningen University. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked as Coordinator of the 3TU Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Technology of Delft University, where she completed her post-doc research on the shared areas of investigation between risk theories, planning theories and ethical inquiry. Her main research interests concern the matter of assessing and governing technological risks in relation to sustainable land use planning. She wrote a number of journal articles and contributions to collective books on these themes. Stefano Moroni teaches “Land use ethics and the law” at Milan Politecnico. His main research interests concern planning theory and ethics. He is the author of a number of books and journal articles. Recent publications (as co-author): Contractual Communities in the Self-Organizing City (Springer 2012).

Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

Grazia Brunetta

Both “land-use regulation” and “territorial collective services” have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within “contractual communities:” territory-based organisations (usually, but not exclusively residential) such as homeowners’ associations. This book examines the problems and opportunities of contractual communities, avoiding both the alarmism and unwarranted apologies found in much of the literature on contractual communities. The central notion is that cases in which coercive action by a public agency was deemed indispensable have been unjustly overstated, while the potential benefits of voluntary self-organising processes have been seriously understated. The authors propose a revised notion of the state role that allows ample leeway for contractual communities of all forms.

Freedom, Creativity, Subsidiarity

Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City

Stefano Moroni

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