Financial Engineering in Sustainable Funding of Urban Development in the EU: Reflections on the JESSICA Initiative

Abstract

racial minorities, or street vendors of Rome, demonstrate the agency capacity that a community can have, along with the various forms of appropriation of public space. Change justice, or as Lefebvre put it ‘Change life! Change society! These desires mean nothing without the production of an appropriate space [. . .] to new social relations, a new space’ (Lefebvre 1974), this leads us to one of the greatest challenges of just urban design: changing approaches focused on control and universalist visions, to create and strengthen the adaptive and flexible capacities of the city, and its public spaces, and thus be able to promote places of empowerment, opportunity, resistance, capable of hosting struggles, and social processes.