Le projet urbain dans la requalification : approche comparative entre l'Italie et la France

How does contemporaneity interpret Urban Design and what kind of meaning give to it? How has the economic and politic transformation process of the town influenced Urban Design? Through a comparative method applied to two comparable geographic realities (Italy and France), this dissertation investigates those actions related to the transformation of urban fringe contexts, inside and outside of dense town, setting out from a theoretical basis that examines the process of explosion of centre-town in the metropolitan territory since the Eighties to this day. Going through this transformation process, the dissertation interrogates about the notion of suburbs, centre and centrality by analyzing the issues provided by those actors that, both in Italy and France, have contributed to renew the notion of Urban Design. The aim of this dissertation has been then to show the analogies and differences in the mode of action of Design where several actors claim that theoretical contributions and first intervention strategies have developed.