Urbanismo tattico e strategie per l’abitare: nuovi strumenti per integrare la visione dei cittadini nei processi di trasformazione della città

The aim of the work is to find new tools to integrate citizen participation in urban transformation processes: this would mean working for a shared and truly democratic city project, based on a shared understanding - and not suffered or passive acceptance – of the administrative choices made through the involvement of the citizens in the choice processes, and on an the openness of public administrations to new bottom-up visions based on urban practices.The work analyzes two themes: Tactical Urbanism (an approach to city project based on short-term, low-cost and small-scale actions, capable, thanks to the tactical aspect, of obtaining not only short-term results but also long-term benefits) and Social Housing strategy (an integrated model that provide not only housing but also services, becouse the key goal is the construction of a cohesive and supportive community, not the real estate project).The themes have similar macro objectives: to show citizens centrality in urban transformations and to reactivate the legitimate role that they have as actors capable of supervising this type of process. For this reason the work developed a theoretical experimentation that, starting from an existing housing strategy (the “Piano integrato per la rigenerazione urbana del centro storico di Sassari”), want to hypothesize its application and development according to the Tactical Urbanism approach, analyzing possible effects and potential advantages of an integration of tactics and strategy.