The Second Light of Globalisation
by Maurizio Carta

Planners, administrators, experts and citizens after having underlined the dangers of globalisation must feel engaged themselves in individualising the positive values of globalisation. Peter Marcuse, recently, has affirmed the existence of the so-called "glossy globalisation", as a new light for the global development, a favourable light able to promote technological progress, to stimulate capital investment, to increase the productivity of labour and to activate and diffuse wide network of local answer to global questions. This network configures itself as a bottom-up globalisation founded on local identities against a top-down globalisation based on the homologation.
Inside this positive paradigm on globalisation of problems and experimentation, we could pose the presence of this section. The Workshop on Community Planning wants to constitute a European and international reference, thanks to the globalising power of internet, in order to discuss, experiment, compare and criticise themes and answers about the bottom-up community planning.
We are convinced that it couldn't exist a full and effective citizen participation to development without a wide diffusion of subjects and without a balance of participation and expression mode.
Audience of the Workshop won't be only the community planners, but also the world's citizens who feel the task to contribute in building a local more conscious and really participate development.
The Workshop is articulated into 4 sections; the first one (Practises) documents recent European community planning experiences; the second one (Contributions) proposes in progress some reflections of whom works around the community planning; the third section (Anthology) collects essays, downloadable articles and links in order to give the most significant as possible panorama about the topic; the fourth section (Forum) will stimulate the discussion on specific frontier themes.