WP 68 | 14 Community Enterprises in Urban Regeneration Policies: Defining and Framing the Italian Context.

In the European and Italian landscape, community enterprises are emerging, under different institutional forms, as key players in urban regeneration processes. These organizations, of different natures, are distinguished by the role they assume in defined territorial areas and, through the performance of different activities, aim at the development and regeneration of community assets. The paper proposes an initial framing of how these organizations operate to achieve these goals, how they develop pathways of interaction among the different actors involved, and what outcomes in terms of policies they have induced. The paper proposes an analysis of the Italian context proceeding from institutionalized organizations to less formal ones: community cooperatives, social enterprises and urban commons linked to social movements.