Planning in Italy, seventy years after the first national planning law

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See INU website: Comunicato stampa 19/03/2012, Riforma urbanistica, il presidente Inu: “Ornaghi vada avanti”, http://www.inu.it/sito/uploads/news/Ornaghi_Inu.pdf

Also in this case, the process of regional legislation has interacted with this phase: in fact, regionalization has occurred also in this field of experimentation and the learning dimension has been limited, but it is still in the making.

The first strategic plan was adopted by an Italian city (Turin) at the end of the 1990s. It was then immediately followed by a similar experience, promoted by an association of four municipalities in the northern part of the Province of Milan (Piano Strategico del Nord Milano).

For the reconstruction of the history of strategic planning in Italy, see: Martinelli, F. (2005), La pianificazione strategica in Italia e in Europa. Metodologie ed esiti a confronto, Milano, FrancoAngeli; Borelli, G. (2005), La politica economica delle città europee. Esperienze di pianificazione strategica, Milano, FrancoAngeli; Fedeli, V., Gastaldi, F. (2004), Pratiche strategiche di pianificazione. Riflessioni a partire da nuovi spazi urbani in costruzione, Milano, FrancoAngeli; Perulli, P. (2004), Piani strategici. Governare le città europee, Milano, FrancoAngeli; Pugliese, T., Spaziante, A. (2003), Pianificazione strategica per le città: riflessioni dalle pratiche, Milano FrancoAngeli; Curti, F., Gibelli, M. C. (a cura di) (1996), Pianificazione strategica e gestione dello sviluppo urbano, Firenze, Alinea.

As a result of this, at the end of 2007 (RUR-CEN-SIS, 2007), five provinces, thirteen large cities or metropolitan areas, ten associations of municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, another nine with less than 100,000 inhabitants, ten single municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants and another 27 less than that, had promoted or adopted forms of strategic planning. 894 municipalities were involved (with a total of more than 8100) in strategic planning, and more than 20 million people affected by these processes – many of which still underway, while some have failed or stopped, and new ones are now starting. Next to this first family of plans, there was a second, more recent one. Actually, the most rapid changes in the picture sketched above were produced by a process of experimentation fostered by the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport since 2005, in the regions of the south of Italy, where major cities have been invited to enhance processes of “strategic planning” in order to obtain resources in the general programming regional framework related to structural funds provided by EU. Approximately 50 of the 74 ongoing experiences are the result of this specific policy promoted by the central government. This family is brand new and an evaluation of this experience is still lacking. See Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti (MIT), Dipartimento per il Coordinamento dello Sviluppo del territorio, il personale e i servizi generali, “Il piano strategico delle città come strumento per ottimizzare le condizioni di sviluppo della competitività e della coesione”, Linee guida, Bozza 2005.

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Valeria Fedeli

Valeria Fedeli, M.Sc. Architecture, 1997 and Master in Planning, 2002, Politecnico di Milano; PhD in Planning and Public Policies (IUAV, 2001), Post-doc Research Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2003). Researcher and Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano since 2007. Her research activities focus on governance, metropolitan and territorial planning, and strategic planning. Valeria Fedeli Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture and Society Department of Architecture and Planning/DIAP Via Bonardi 3 I-20133 Milano