Temporary Use Toolkit. Tools for the reactivation of the urban voids

Abstract

European cities have countless unutilized or underused buildings. Many of them are part of a public heritage that cannot be maintained and, therefore, have become part of urban ruins deactivated from their life cycle. Faced with this situation, since the eighties, innovative strategies began to be developed that explored the temporary use of these buildings. This has required new forms of relations between public administrations and citizens, as well as other models of management and regulatory regulation. European institutions, very aware of this problem, are promoting projects aimed at promoting the reuse and reactivation of empty buildings through urban regeneration processes through the implementation of temporary uses. In this context, projects have been developed aimed at proposing strategies focused on the problem of disuse and underutilization. The Temporary Use Toolkit, intended for both public institutions and citizens, establishes a methodology that allows the complexity of processes to be addressed under a simplified sequential process.