Immigrants, coming to Italy from different origin countries, demand for a new kind of city characterized by public spaces, services and places of worship able to satisfy their specific needs. It derives that integration, the main social problem in nowadays societies, necessary passes through the act of urban planning. Starting from available data, provided for example by Caritas-Migrantes, ISTAT, ISMU, CENSIS, about immigrants in Italy, about their distribution over Italian Regions and about their settlement in different cities, the main focus of the present work is on normative aspects and on new project proposals connected to the housing problem. In the last part, the case of the Campania Region, characterized by a great amount of immigrants and by the proposal of new urban policies included in the “Piano Casa”, represents a new intriguing proposal to foster immigrants’ urban integration.
The impact of migrations: can urban planning be a tool to solve the social problem of integration?
DE BIASE, Claudia
2011
Abstract
Immigrants, coming to Italy from different origin countries, demand for a new kind of city characterized by public spaces, services and places of worship able to satisfy their specific needs. It derives that integration, the main social problem in nowadays societies, necessary passes through the act of urban planning. Starting from available data, provided for example by Caritas-Migrantes, ISTAT, ISMU, CENSIS, about immigrants in Italy, about their distribution over Italian Regions and about their settlement in different cities, the main focus of the present work is on normative aspects and on new project proposals connected to the housing problem. In the last part, the case of the Campania Region, characterized by a great amount of immigrants and by the proposal of new urban policies included in the “Piano Casa”, represents a new intriguing proposal to foster immigrants’ urban integration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
