Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis

Ombretta Caldarice, is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Politecnico and Università di Torino, Italy, in the Inter-University Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning. Her research activity mainly focuses on the relationship between spatial planning and regulation, with particular attention to welfare policies, urban resilience and institutional innovation. She took part in national and international research projects working on the socio-economic development in regional areas. She is now junior coordinator of the Risk Management and Adaptation Group of the international programme “RESURBE” on Urban Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation. Currently, her research activity is focused on the role (and limits) of planning in complex and adaptive systems. She is member of the editorial boards of the Italian Journal on Urban Innovation and of the International Journal of Social Science.

• Introduction.- Part I: Current problems: the continuing debate on urban service planning.- Chapter 1. Urban services in contemporary cities.- Chapter 2. Urban services in European spatial planning.- Part II: Attempts at innovation: the italian approach to urban service planning.- Chapter 3. New italian developments in urban service planning.- Chapter 4. The italian service plan.- Part III: Perspectives: themes for European urban service planning reform.- Chapter 5. Towards a different approach to urban service planning.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: blazing a trail to change.