Plymouth Social Enterprise City: l'impresa sociale per la rigenerazione urbana

Relational networks to which belong people and in which people recognize oneself, representa pivotal resource. These permit to pursue objectives being able to count on economic and cultural resources that people couldn't access differently(Bourdieu, 1980; Coleman, 1988). In the literature is dominant a belief: an urban landscape characterized by interpersonal reliance, a constant participation in association networks and a diffused civic culture improves the conditions of individual and collective well-being increasing social cohesion, making more effective public policies and minimize social costs (Fusco Girard, 2011; Perrone, 2011). This contribution presents as best practice the experience of Plymouth -a UK city declared in 2013 first Social Enterprise City. The UK city, through the smart usage of social enterprise, has made stronger the urban regeneration process ongoing in the city. The empirical analysis developed in loco demonstrated that the social enterprise can represent a valid support to consolidate virtuous regeneration processes starting from endogenous physical and human resources.