Abstract
Urban renewals (URs) were identified as a “wicked problem situations” in the original article which introduced the concept. Recently, transforming urban historic areas has become increasingly complex because of a number of reasons (including the property fragmentation, the values’ creation mechanisms, the regulatory framework, the multitude of public and private stakeholders with divergent perspectives and values). In this paper it is argued that problem situations related to URs have become ‘super-wicked’, borrowing the term from the literature on climate change and introducing it urban planning and evaluation realm. In this sense, it is possible to distinguish a series of issues that can grouped in three main features: (i) the measurable dimension of the problem, mainly related to the physical and spatial dimension of that peculiar economic good represented by the urban tissue; (ii) the specificity of the decisional processes in this realm; (iii) the normative dimension.
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Lami, I.M. (2019). The Context of Urban Renewals as a ‘Super-Wicked’ Problem. In: Calabrò, F., Della Spina, L., Bevilacqua, C. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. ISHT 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 100. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92099-3_29
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