OsservaBo: un osservatorio urbano permanente sul farsi della città di Bologna

Tools for territorial governance, often couched in highly technical, inaccessible language, appear increasingly incapable of offering long-term visions or responding effectively to local needs. These processes are accompanied by urban planning legislation increasingly influenced by neoliberal policies, which weaken the role of the public sector, reducing it to just one of many actors competing with mostly private interests. It is within this context that OsservaBo was created in Bologna in 2023: an observatory on urban and territorial transformations, aimed at analysing the effects of changes in contemporary urban planning culture on the Bologna area. An interdisciplinary space for critical inquiry and the production of situated knowledge, bringing together urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and historians of different ages and professional backgrounds on a weekly basis in one place: the Casalone