Fiancing urban regeneration according to sustainability logic: public-private partnership for the development of smart cities

Infrastructure investment needs are a powerful means of sustaining economic development, boosting GDP and employment. In Italy, the important infrastructural gap respect to direct European competitors, the collapse of long term returns and the progressive contraction of investment capacity by public administrations have favored the use of Public Private Partnership schemes, which has represented, for years now, an important and stable share of the public works market.