EU Programmes and Urban Public Spaces: some Italian Results

We walk, we breath... we run and our heartbeat goes faster. Just like our body, also the body of the European cities in the last decades has trembled following the rhythm of the EU investments programmes as LIFE, URBACT or similar. Because public spaces are the mirror of a society and follow its rules, the new generation of EU urban programmes have been trying to involve citizens more and more in their planning phase. This article will focus on their development in Italy, presenting some examples where participation, public administration and designers well collaborated during the process, creating or renovating urban spaces devoted to the pedestrians.