Conclusion

Abstract

The aim of this book was to introduce a model and to go into depth through the use of case studies. Their importance in the comparison with the model has been explored. The definition of a specific list of contents for the treatment of the case studies (see the section that introduces the cases) had the aim of underlining the identification of some subjects and re-constructing their action. In the case studies method there is the willingness of underlining the passages from functions, urban models, PPPs (an aspect around which are organized the major part of the treatment and considerations), tools and drivers. Globalization and competitiveness of the city are the elements that served as the basis to construct the dynamic of the CoUrbIT model. We are still convinced that the unsolved theme of how the obsolescence of parts of the city happens, especially in what we define implosion, is significantly linked to globalization and neo-competitiveness of the cities in an international context. An open question still remains the relationship between the central city and that part of the city which ramifies from the center of the city to the region, the substitution of obsolescence in terms of balance between production and consumption. All this represents an important question for the future of the city’s government. This means evaluating private and public action, the activation of new forms of public-private relationship where the autonomy of every single subject is redesigned, as well as the autonomy so far known of the central government.