Zoning/Mixite: alle radici dell'urbanistica italiana e francese

摘要

Functional and spatial segregation is still an urban condition that is strongly influencing European cities, despite being unanimously condemned by recent European urban planning culture and practice. Continued use of zoning is often accused of having guided spatial fragmentation, social segregation and urban sprawl. The opposite concept is mixite: social and functional mixing that would allow building a more democratic and egalitarian city. If on the one hand zoning is a tool that is often considered outdated, writes Barattucci, 'in actual fact it continues to have a strong presence, not only in the urban planning regulations of many European countries, and in urban planning practices, but also, if not above all, in urban planning rationality, logic and outlook' (20).