PROCESSI PARTECIPATI PER LA VALORIZZAZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO IMMOBILIARE PUBBLICO: IL RUOLO DEL CAPITALE SOCIALE E DELLE POLITICHE PUBBLICHE

The enhancement of public real estate property is a very important issue at national and international level. For this purpose, the Italian public administration promotes many policies that are oriented to simplify patrimonial and planning procedures. Recently, new enhancement forms of public real-estate asset took place. Self-organized communities started to promote profit and no profit activities in unused public property. The aim of the paper is to analyse the main conditions to create new economic and social value by bottom up enhancement processes in Italian public real-estate assets. In particular, two hypothesis have been evaluated: the first one conceives the social capital as a premise to start these activities; the second one concerns the use of specific public policies as a tool to support bottom up processes. Throughout the multivariate statistics, have been analyzed fifty cases studies and three clusters emerged, confirming the initial theory of the research. Social capital is essential for the beginning of bottom-up processes to enhance public property. Nevertheless, where social capital is lacking, public policies can be a relevant alternative to support local bottom up activities