The third sector as a new urban actor in the territories of functional inequalities

Abstract

Italy's inland areas are strongly affected by the lack of essential services, their territorial absence and the low quality offered to citizens. In addition to this, it has emphasised the practices of central administration far from marginal places and local administrations often locked in particularistic dynamics for mere consensus --. How can European (extraordinary) and national (ordinary) resources be activators of processes that follow general guidelines but are place based? With the Code of the Third Sector a new approach to fund management is opening up. The novelty of these processes that are being promoted in some Italian cities could be a testbed to be monitored for inland areas, with less and less administrative capacity and more and more need for networking skills and experimentation.

Keywords: Urban planning, Third Sector, Cohesion, Risk, Inland unequal areas