Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter, 1st ed. 2022
Towards the Possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities

This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.

The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication.

Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.

Part I: Urban Resilience in Times of Environmental Crises.- Introduction.- The Periphery Does Not Exist.- From Circular Design to Circular Dynamics.- Part II: The Charter of Peccioli.- Preamble to the Charter of Peccioli. A Vision for Italy: A Nation of Resilient Communities.- The Peccioli Charter, or the New Constitution of the Nation of the Italian Resilient Communities.- Part III: Contributions of the Steering Committee Members.- Introduction.- No More Masterplan! Resilient Communities Require Incremental, Adaptive and Generative Processes.- Building the Space of a Resilient.- The Reslient Landscape of a Community.- The Role of Cultural and Built Heritage as Drivers for the Ecological and Social Regeneration of Suburbs and Minor Urban Centers Toward Future Resilience.- Investing in Human Capital. Towards a New Paradigm of Urban and Social Resilience, Beyond the Notion of Profit.- Farming the Contemporary City: Resilience and Adaptation  Strategies from the Past.- Urban Socio-Psychological Resilience.- Designing Material Cultures.- Urban Metabolism: Towards a Holistic Practice of Resilience.- The Right Distance. Forms of Representation for Resilient Communities.- Part IV: From the Charter to the Perspectives of Resilience: Impacts.- Introduction.- A Charter of Resilience: Methodologies and Impact. From a Manifesto in Seven Points to the International Symposiums and Workshops.- Homo Resilience: Cultural Diversity in the Time of the Novacene.- Resilient Cities for Resilient Communities.- The Era of Eco-Responsibility.- The Architecture of the New Century, Interpreter of Chance Through Continuity.- Active Communities for Resilient Cities. Urban Agenda for Italy: Industrial Districts as Resilient Economic, Social and Cultural Communities.- Resilient Padua.- For the Common Good: Courage and Resilience.- Women Architects of Resilience.-"Spatial Drawings": Towards Becoming Aware of Living.- Guidelines for a Resilient Urban Landscape.- For an Ethics of Becoming.- Part V: Conclusions.

Maurizio Carta is an architect, PhD and full professor of urbanism and regional planning at the Department of Architecture and Academic Senator of the University of Palermo. Founder and Director of the Augmented City Lab, an international research agency about the cities of the future. He was Director of the Urbanism Department, Dean of the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo and Deputy Mayor for the Historic Center of the Palermo Municipality. He is senior expert in strategic planning, urban design and local development, drawing up several urban, landscape and strategic plans in Italy. In 2015 the International Biennial of Architecture in Buenos Aires awarded him with the prize for “academic investigation”. In 2019 he was Italian Design Ambassador for the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He is visiting professor or keynote speaker in several universities and institutions. He is author of more than 300 publications, among the most recent: Reimagining Urbanism (Listlab, 2014), The Fluid City Paradigm (with D. Ronsivalle, Springer, 2016), Augmented City (Listlab, 2017) Dynamics of Periphery (with J. Schroeder, Jovis, 2018), Futuro. Politiche per un diverso presente (Rubbettino, 2019), Città aumentate. Dieci gesti-barriera per il futuro (Il Margine, 2021), Cosmopolitan Habitat (with J. Schroeder et al, Jovis, 2021).