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The Elderly's Properties: Scenarios, trends and alternative models. E-book. Formato PDF Marzia Morena - Politecnica, 2021 -
The traditional model that caters for the requirements of older adults focuses mainly on the treatment of disorders, and on support to those who have lost their autonomy. Today, assisted care facilities generally provide healthcare and medical services, rather than catering for all the difficulties that a family or individuals may have to face. Older adults and their families need to change their habits and plans, including their existential targets, all along the elderly life span. The elderly feel deeply rooted in their communities. The ownership of the house itself, a major goal to many of them, is felt as a guarantee of stability and continuity. The urban arrangement and town-planning models are seldom designed to accommodate the daily requirements in all the different stages of life, and this issue is not limited to large cities only. In addition to that, the institutional models of care for people with reduced autonomy are nowadays inadequate, in most cases, to meet their requirements and wants. This scenario calls for solutions that are difficult to implement, especially in critical economic times such as the one we are currently experiencing. Nonetheless, research and planning in this field are now unavoidable. It is not by chance that most countries with advanced economies have already started significant reforms in service types and organization; however even when legislative or regulatory acts are lacking, the solutions sought by people today differ from the standard institutional proposals. This essay analyzes some fields of development of these scenarios, starting from the tricky boundary line between ordinary housing solutions and those capable of integrating housing with adequate services. The large number of variables generates an extremely fluid overall picture; partly the issue is about matching people's desire to live in places that they feel to be their own and where they can experience the fullness of their lives, with the needs imposed by organizational solutions and service models. It should come as no surprise, then, that considerations on this theme bring together realities that are very different from one another, and cannot therefore be classified or described as a homogeneous model.
Waterfront: Innovative strategies and tools for the enhancement of cities and territories. E-book. Formato PDF Marzia Morena - Politecnica, 2020 -
A remarkable aspect of waterfronts is the change over time of users, and functional and formal features. Scalar dimension, local strategies, process management tools, financing methods and interactions among the various players involved in the transformation of the permeable boundary and the liquid cities: these are some issues of the complex relationship between territories and water. This relationship epitomizes all the contradictions and the problems of contemporary strategies and actions enhancing the built environment. Waterfront has become a topic: it stimulates diverse interests and involves big cities, as well as the small and medium-sized towns, in redevelopment and functional recovery operations exploiting the huge opportunities offered by the water resources. The analysis of past and present experiences shows that the interaction between the city and the water is a continuous and complex process requiring remarkable effort and a multidisciplinary approach, enabling the cooperation among Public Administrations and Local Governments and the involvement of different players. Nowadays, more than ever, cities are experiencing financial difficulties, with limited funds for public works and many bureaucratic limitations in the allocation of public money. Therefore, different ways must be identified by which Public Administrations could collect additional resources to finance a sustainable cities development and the enhancement of built environment. To overcome the difficulties of the Public Administrations, setting public works, more and more effective long-term Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) are needed. The today revolution lies in the interconnection of new technologies and global networks. Innovative tools as Civic Crowdfunding and Green Bond could serve as tools to solve this critical situation and support the public authorities in implementing public projects. Civic Crowdfunding and Green Bond are in their development phase. They are spreading fast and are more often adopted by the local Administrations, thanks to the social and economic benefits. These innovative financial tools are not extensively adopted for the development and enhancement of cities. Their promising future is mainly due to the transparency of the decision-making process in implementing projects of public interest, giving citizens the opportunity to participate in the development t of the territories.