The course aims to provide theoretical-methodological and operating tools for carrying out planning process aimed at upgrading the existing cities, with particular reference to degraded suburb contexts and potentially subject to significant changes. This purpose will be achieved both by checking the environmental, morphological, economic-financial and administrative feasibility, and by the choice of innovative tools flexible enough to ensures the triggering of virtuous processes of recovery and renewal by means of the involvement of individuals and private operators in actions of public interest.