Urban Planning and Sociology Laboratory

The Urban Planning Laboratory is a center of excellence in research on methodologies and problems of the governance of the city and of contemporary territories. Moreover, the Dicar Laboratory itself carried out a scientific partnership with the Arca Puglia Centrale (then IACP Bari and Bat) on the occasion of the PRIN (Research Projects of National Interest) of the MIUR "La Città Pubblica" as a Design Laboratory . The production of Guidelines for the sustainable redevelopment of urban outskirts financed in 2005 by MIUR. Research that gave life to two publications; respectively AA.VV. (2009), Public City, Guidelines for urban redevelopment, Mondadori, Milan and that of the Local Research Unit of the Polytechnic of Bari; Martinelli, N. (edited by) (2009), For an Atlas of the Public City of Bari, Adda, Bari the latter with a partial financial contribution to the publication of the same Iacp Bari and Bat. Moreover, the same research group carried out an experience in the field as requested by the MIUR for the research in question collaborating with the Municipality of Bari and with the IACP Bari and Bat conducting the District Laboratory on the occasion of the PIRP of S. Marcello.