Social Housing: The Environmental Sustainability on More Dimensions

A new social question has emerged after the deep social and economic transformations in the European cities: the problem of the presence of quarters in crisis or disadvantaged suburbs that now are the symbol of urban areas with big uncertainties and tensions where people, in a society where the division is not more vertical but horizontal, have difficulties to find a real “urban and social integration” in a situation of crisis of the citizenship rights, in particular that one of living in a decorous house in liveable quarters. To resolve these problems, many European cities have indicate a way of qualitative transformation betting on a new city planning and a new architecture inclined to the sustainability with the principal aim of “create” a new city to face the economic and social crisis. The eco-sustainable re-qualification of whole urban segments has been actualized as an experimental field of innovation, of the transformation of the city, and of the regeneration of marginal urban areas, through public actions of increasing of the conditions of life with a use of a series of typical elements of an experimentation of “sustainable planning” that can modify the habitable existing city. The restoration of a decorous environment in disadvantage quarters, their re-qualification with the development of adequate activities and services, above all with the solutions of HOUSING, represent an especial step towards the redemption from the economic and social exclusion of these urban areas, that translates into a high unemployment rate, in a danger for the public health and in the diffusion of the criminality.