Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Development in Veneto Region

The aim of this paper is to show that urban regeneration needs to be carried out through a new approach to the phenomenon of suburbs and illegally built areas using the appropriate new urban planning standards when harmonizing public and private spheres. The applied methodology is implemented in two phases. The first criticizes the method used by Renzo Piano and his deliberation of urban regeneration of degraded suburbs with a sort of urban mending, demonstrating that instead of mending the decay it is more suitable to proceed to urban substitution – in other words, to build new cities. In the second phase, some instruments of urban and spatial land use conversion, prescribed by Region Veneto Act 11/2004, will be presented. These instruments are urban equalisation, construction loan and urban compensation. The aforementioned concepts are intended to be used as tools to effectuate the processes of urban and environmental requalification. The results we expect to obtain are aimed at the application of construction loan in the Croatian context, as an instrument to re-design the area through forms of public agreement and private interest that could also be used to manage the phenomenon of illegal construction.