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The book "Wine Cellars of Negotin: Participatory Urban Design" presents a summary of five years of activities. It is a logical continuation of the previously published book and collaborations, which have initiated earlier. The first collaboration between the Municipality of Negotin and the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture - Public Art & Public Space Program - PaPs [http://www.publicart-publicspace.org/] has started in 2011. A very wide range of top academic, public, and private institutions and top experts, from Serbia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the UK has accompanied this collaboration. The first results of the activities, which were realized from 2011 to mid-2014, are presented in the book “VinoGrad - The Art of Wine” [http://www.publicart-publicspace.org/publications/books/vinograd-the-art-of-wine173], published in 2015. Therefore, this book is a result of the activities that have been implemented since mid-2014. Developing as a continuation of the previous research and achieved results, implementation of the activities in the last five years has evolved in three basic directions. These directions make the structure of the book. Firstly, connecting the city of Negotin to the international networks aimed at the knowledge transfer through twinning, or networking with cities that share similar experiences from the past and similar hopes for a desired future. Secondly, drafting concrete project proposals for the revitalization of Negotin wine cellars as a distinct development base for the restoration of wine-growing methods and wine production techniques that have traditionally celebrated this region. This is in order to prove the possibility of introducing modern approaches to the revival of the viniculture, protecting the heritage, and closer linkage of these sectors with the daily needs and routines of both existing and future users. Thirdly, the book presents the initiative and implementation of international scientific research proj

Theory and practice about geoparks and the geotourism concept consider not only the geological heritage, but also its relationship to all other aspects of the natural, cultural and intangible heritage as a cornerstone of sustainability and well-being. In doing so, geotourism could be a powerful tool for the preservation and development of the heritage. The Geo-mining Park in Sardinia marks centuries of geological, mining and historical and environmental heritage. The recognition of the Sardinian Geopark by UNESCO in 1997 as innovative, and as a heritage of great importance, created administrative and legislative opportunities. However, the territory lacks a territorial development strategy and administration structure for managing the heritage. With the indirect pressure from the tourism industry the region faces, over the next few decades, a deep social-economic crisis and neglect of the landscapes and settlements. This paper aims to examine geotourism as sustainable strategic approach and territorial planning tool that based on multi-source networking and, that benefits both, development of the local community and preservation of the Geo-mining Park in Sardinia.

Public participation and bottom-up approach have spread across the field of heritage since last two decades. Theory and practice about heritage conservation note strengthening the local capacitiesoverrecognition and inclusion of local communities in the decision-making processas vital for more sustainable development. UNESCO proclaims theuniversal value of the Geo-mining Park in Sardinia in 1997. The institutionalisation by Regional Decree in 2006 gave onadministrative and legislative opportunities, but socio-economic crisis and neglecting of mining landscape still follows the decaying trend. The paper aims to examine the problematic issues of public participation in heritage conservation facing the case of Geo-mining Park in Sardinia. The paper highlights the importance of public participation in heritage conservation and the role of local communities in the decision-making process through the theoretical framework. Additionally, participation process as an integrated heritage conservation approach delineates the features that give a unique character and provide the sense of belonging that lies at the core of thecultural identity of the heritage site. Furthermore, the paper introduces Geo-mining Parkin Sardinia picturing the problematic issues about public participation rise in the foundation process, and that left the consequences until nowadays. An overview of theorganisational structure, principles of making-decision, the role and recognition of local communities and collaboration patterns pictured the contextual problems illustrating the current governing structure. The paper found that the complicated institutionalisation process of Sardinia case demonstrates top to down institutional efforts from the foundation process without responding the needs of the civic sector. Lack of an effective public participation mechanism and exclusion of the civicsector from making-decision process detached the people from the landscape and contributed to the loss of identity.A

Like many other rural regions in post-socialist countries, Negotinska krajina wine region faces serious decline in wine production and severe depopulation. In order to reverse these negative trends, strengthening local capacities, through development of social networks, exchange and transfer of knowledge, expertise and know-how, is recognised in planning theory and practice as vital for more sustainable development of rural regions. This paper presents a process of developing a complex and dynamic model of collaboration between local institutions, companies and communities from Negotinska krajina region and Serbian and Italian academic and scientific institutions, experts and companies, in order to achieve: a) Increased transfer of knowledge, experiences and practices of local representatives and wine growers from Negotinska krajina region and partners; b) Increased knowhow transfer among academic partners and practical knowledge transfer among local public, private and civic stakeholders and academic institutions from Serbia and Italy; c) Institutionalized inter sectorial collaboration and ‘city to city’ cooperation. Some of the partners in this collaboration are: University of Belgrade-Faculty of Architecture;..... Fondazione De Vittorio (ex IRES – Istituto Ricerche Economiche e Sociali); Department......– Società cooperativa Agricola per azioni; Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade; University of Belgrade-Faculty of Philosophy, and Italian Embassy in Belgrade.

The paper explores government capacities of Sardinian mining heritage (dating back 8 thousand years of mining culture, crashed as an industrial engine in '60s and proclaimed as heritage of great importance by UNESCO in 1997.). Nowadays, characterized by depopulation, lack of management and managing, astonishing sites are conceived, semi-perceived and pseudo-lived. The research has an orientation, character and strategy, pragmatic orientated with qualitative character; oriented to determine what and how should be done in relation to what is wanted to be done. It is a multidisciplinary approach, which implies that research always takes place in a specific social, historical, economic and political context. Questioning trends and urban potentials of Sardinian territories, with a contemporary European strategy, the research discusses on shared cultural experience as long term sustainability, lies down and raises at the level of the local community. The main paper issue is examining 'Glocal' - local and global inter-governance capacity by using 'Axes of partnership' (local - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - European and Global Geoparks Network - UNESCO) as the first component of creative partnering, which leads to integration of local communities into participative, cultural, redevelopment process in the context of Sardinian mining heritage as system design sustainability., Rad se bavi istraživanjem kapaciteta upravljanja rudnim industrijskim nasleđem Sardinije. Rudarska kultura Sardinije datira iz perioda od pre 8 hiljada godina, gde je oduvek predstavljala industrijski razvojni motor regiona, ugašena je '60-ih godina prošlog veka, a kasnije, 1997. godine, proglašena od strane UNESCO-a za nasleđe od izuzetnog značaja. Danas, ovi predeli se odlikuju izrazitom depopulacijom, i nedovoljnim kapacitetima upravljanja i rukovođenja; pejzaži izuzetne lepote imaju karakter osmišljenih, ali polu-doživljenih i pseudo-živih mesta. Istraživanje je pragmatične orijentacije, sa kvalititativnim karakterom; orijentisano da utvrdi šta i kako treba raditi u odnosu na željenu budućnost. Ono je multidisciplinarnog pristupa i uvek podrazumeva istraživanje u određenom društvenom, istorijskom, ekonomskom i političkom kontekstu. Ispitivanje trendova i urbanih potencijala sardinijske teritorije rađeno je u komparaciji sa savremenom evropskom strategijom. Istraživanje govori o 'zajedničkom kulturnom iskustvu' kao dugoročnoj komponenti održivosti, koja počiva, zasnovana je i pokreće se, na nivou lokalne zajednice. Glavno pitanje rada razmatra 'Glokalnu', lokalnu i globalnu, sposobnost upravljanja pomoću 'ose partnerstva' (lokalni nivo - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - evropska i globalna mreža geoparkova - UNESKO), kao prve komponente kreativnog partnerstva, koja vodi ka integrisanju lokalne zajednice u participativni, kulturni, proces ponovnog razvoja, u kontekstu sardinijskog rudnog nasleđa kao održivog dizajna ovog sistema.

Il mondo sta diventando un mondo di città. Un fenomeno incessante e che si svolge a velocità crescente è quello dell’esplosione urbana che spesso si manifesta come sprawl, ma che non è solo sprawl. Far fronte al fenomeno dell’esplosione urbana non è semplice, anche perché non è un solo fenomeno, ma fenomeni diversi per morfologia e per cause. E allora non vi è una sola soluzione per controllare l’esplosione urbana, come ripete il mantra della “città compatta” come l’unica e un po’ vaga soluzione. Governare l’esplosione urbana vuol certamente dire accrescere la densità e concentrare le aree urbanizzate, ma questo può essere fatto solo comprendendo le specificità dei diversi fenomeni e identificando la “cura” corretta, con un atteggiamento progettuale lungimirante. Come pianificare una nuova via per rendere possibile lo sviluppo di questi territori, pensando alle interazioni e ai legami tra i diversi livelli, le diverse funzioni, le diverse popolazioni, ma anche fra piano e progetto? Si può partire dal presupposto che sia possibile ridurre gli effetti negativi del periurbano pur conservandone e valorizzandone i vantaggi, ricercando dei “compromessi”, attraverso l’individuazione di una serie di strumenti urbanistici coadiuvati da misure economico-fiscali. La pianificazione urbanistica non può, da sola, governare il fenomeno periurbano, perché le convenienze in gioco sono numerose e in capo ad una moltitudine di soggetti diversi; quindi si deve operare, oltre che sugli strumenti urbanistici, anche su quelli economico-fiscali, proponendo un riordino del sistema fiscale, integrato nella pianificazione urbanistica ed ambientale delle città. Proveremo a indicare come, The world is today a “world of cities”. In this world there is phenomenon that is an incessant phenomenon, that occurs at an increasing speed: the urban explosion, that is sprawl, ma not only sprawl. To cope with this phenomenon is not easy, mainly because it is not a single phenomenon, but a set of related phenomena, different for morphology and different in causes. Then there is not a sole solution to control the urban explosion, as it is told by the rather simplistic mantra of the compact city. The control of the urban explosion needs to increase density and concentrate urbanization, but we can operate this control only if we understand the diversity of phenomena to identify the right treatment, designing with far-sightedness, How to design and plan a new way to allow a development of these territories, looking at the interaction between the different levels of governance, the different functions, the different populations? Uno starting point could be that it is possible to reduce the negative effects of suburbanization, maintaining the advantages, finding a “compromise” when needed; it implies to combine planning regulations with fiscal end economical measures. Urban and territorial planning cannot govern the sub-urbanisation by itself: we have a complex game with a lot of diverging actors; we must integrate planning and fiscal systems. We’ll try to say how., Peer Reviewed

La città contemporanea è una città a misura di automobilista. Chi non vuole o non può usare l'automobile per spostarsi non è in grado di esercitare pienamente il proprio diritto urbano di accesso ed uso degli spazi e delle strade sottratti dalle automobili all'uso pubblico e collettivo. Il prerequisito per la riconquista di questo diritto urbano negato è la promozione di un vero e proprio cambiamento culturale in materia di mobilità, attraverso il coinvolgimento consapevole e responsabile degli abitanti nelle politiche e nei progetti di promozione della mobilità altra, in particolare di coloro che subiscono la maggior parte delle conseguenze negative determinate dalla presenza invasiva delle automobili nella città: bambini, anziani, persone disabili e pedoni (e ciclisti) in generale. Nell'articolo descriveremo il progetto pilota "Extrapedestri. Lasciati conquistare dalla mobilità aliena!" che si pone l'obiettivo di promuovere la camminabilità urbana di due quartieri marginali della città di Sassari (e, in prospettiva, di tutta la città, trattandosi un progetto facilmente replicabile) a partire dalle esigenze, dai desideri e dalla "capacità di disobbedienza" dei bambini, uno dei gruppi di abitanti più svantaggiati in materia di mobilità., Contemporary city is a car-friendly city. Those who cannot or do not want to use a car are not capable to fully exercise their fundamental urban right to access and to use the public spaces and the streets. In this paper, we argue that it is possible to make more effective policies aimed at building walkable cities making reference to the desires and needs of disadvantaged groups. In particular, we concentrate on children as one of the most vulnerable groups of inhabitants of the city. The role children can play in improving urban quality of life is fundamental, for a number of reasons, most important of which, for the purpose of this paper, is their "capability of disobedience" which might be used as a force of urban transformation. Then, we present one project through which we try to promote the urban walkability of the city of Sassari starting from children's involvement: "ExtraPedestrians: let yourself be conquered by the 'alien' mobility"., Peer Reviewed

La promozione della qualità della vita urbana passa necessariamente attraverso la costruzione di una città inclusiva, una città effettivamente "usabile" da tutti i suoi abitanti. Anche e soprattutto da chi, a causa di una qualche condizione (permanente o temporanea), si discosta dall'immagine dell'abitante-tipo adulto, maschio, sano, istruito, ricco e automunito e non é quindi "capace" (o non lo è pienamente) di accedere ai luoghi, ai servizi, alle opportunità e alle informazioni della città che sono progettate, organizzate e governate precisamente in funzione delle esigenze e dei desideri di questo abitante-tipo. Rilevanti sono in tal senso i progetti e le politiche che si concentrano soprattutto sulle periferie con l'intento di promuovere la qualità della vita urbana quotidiana degli abitanti . Accanto ai grandi (e costosi) interventi di riqualificazione, particolarmente utili sono le trasformazioni a scala di quartiere, le "micro" trasformazioni, perché sono in grado di migliorare concretamente l'usabilità di quella che può essere definita "città quotidiana e di prossimità", la città, cioè, che gli abitanti conoscono, "usano" (o "userebbero" se fosse effettivamente accessibile e usabile) e di cui possono prendersi cura. L'articolo cerca di mostrare perché è efficace e pertinente un approccio legato ad una dimensione "micro" degli interventi, anche attraverso il racconto di alcune esperienze sul campo condotte da Tamalacà, un gruppo di ricerca e azione del Dipartimento di Architettura Design e Urbanistica (DADU) dell'Università di Sassari., Upgrading the quality of urban life necessarily goes hand in hand with building up an inclusive city, a city actually “usable” by all its inhabitants. The kind of project that is important from this point of view will focus on the most marginal areas of the city. Alongside the large, costly urban redevelopment interventions, transformations on a neighbourhood scale and "micro" dimension are particularly useful. This article attempts to show why an approach involving intervention linked with a “micro” dimension is effective and pertinent, and also describes a significant experiment carried out by the action research group TaMaLaCà of the Department of Architecture Design and Planning - Architecture at Alghero (University of Sassari) in the town of Sassari., Peer Reviewed

Il contributo propone un metodo e uno strumento per la valutazione della qualità della vita urbana basato sui concetti di walkability e di accessibilità pedonale di luoghi della città rilevanti con i quali estendere le capacità degli individui e partecipare concretamente alle urban opportunities. Il modello di valutazione utilizza i percorsi pedonali esistenti della rete viaria e valuta la loro qualità in base a diversi attributi importanti per la pedonalità. L’applicazione del sistema proposto al caso studio di valutazione del progetto di riorganizzazione della Segunda Circular (seconda circonvallazione) di Lisbona consente di mostrarne i possibili utilizzi e di trarre alcune riflessioni sulla base dei risultati ottenuti., We present a methodology and a tool for evaluating the quality of life in cities based on walkability and pedestrian accessibility of places which are relevant for people's capabilities. The evaluation model uses the actual pedestrian routes along the street network and considers their quality on several attributes important for their walkability. We furthermore demonstrate possible uses of the support system by reporting and discussing the results of a case-study assessment of a project for the Lisbon Segunda Circular (Second Rind Road)., Peer Reviewed