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Metropolitan governance and metropolitan cities in Italy: outdated solutions for processes of urban regionalisation?
No full textA form of metropolitan government in Italy was originally introduced in 1990. After 25 years, the approval of Law 56/2014 has opened a new season of experimentation, full of expectations but at the same time not exempt from critique. The paper presents and discusses the elements of innovation and path-dependency that have shaped the current normative framework, explaining in particular the climate under which the new law was adopted. The author critically focuses on three main problematic aspects of the law that institutes the new città metropolitana, i. e. the definition of boundaries, the nature of the new institution, and its competences and tools for action, considering their ability to deal with the challenges related to the processes of regional urbanisation affecting contemporary Italy
Università nella città-regione: un-bundling and rebundling il rapporto tra città e università, paper presentato alla XXXV CONFERENZA ITALIANA DI SCIENZE REGIONALI, 2014
No full textIl presente contributo si propone di fare i conti con la necessità di “scomporre” e “ricomporre”
la relazione tra università e città, tra università e territorio a partire dal riconoscimento del
ruolo giocato dalle significative trasformazioni spaziali che hanno interessato la città italiana
contemporanea. Si ritiene infatti che adottando questa prospettiva si possa contribuire in
generale ad individuare alcune potenzialità e a rileggere criticamente alcune criticità e spazi di
innovazione di tale rapporto. Per andare in questa direzione questo contributo si articola in
due parti. La prima è dedicata ad una breve ricostruzione del dibattito internazionale sul
rapporto tra università, regioni urbane, sviluppo locale. La seconda ricostruisce le aspettative
contenute nella letteratura italiana degli ultimi decenni rispetto al rinnovato rapporto tra
territori e università; rilegge una serie di attese, spesso forse rimaste implicite, e ricompone un
quadro delle valutazioni disponibili di quella stagione di sviluppo locale che è corrisposta con
una delle più grandi trasformazioni dell’assetto spaziale e insediativo, e che ha prodotto
alcune innovazioni nel rapporto tra città e università, che non hanno forse trovato ancora una
significativa collocazione nel quadro generale di una riflessione sul ruolo della università nel
territorio delle piccole e grandi città italiane
Vicari Haddock e F. Moulaert (a cura di), Rigenerare la città: pratiche di innovazione sociale nelle città europee
No full textGetting closer: imagining new forms of governance for a changing urban landscape
No full textAfter decades of stalemate in terms of institutional innovation, the year 2012 has opened a new opportunity for reflection in the field of territorial governance in Italy. In order to face the challenges posed by the current economical crisis, the national government has in fact enforced the institution of forms of metropolitan government, those introduced by law in the 90’s but never implemented so far. This new binding perspective was part of a larger project of redesign of the role and boundaries of provincial institutions over the entire national territory. The general rationale under this governmental initiative being more related to the reduction of public expenditures, rather than to a strategic reform of territorial governance, the initiative has raised many critical comments and opposition at the local level, in particular on the side of provincial governments, opposing it for different reasons. Nevertheless, in a few month, a process of redefinition of political boundaries took place: although not yet implemented, for a series of political and institutional reasons, a number of different proposals of boundaries redesign has been issued, sometimes as conflictual outcomes of debates and negotiations at the local level. At the same time, main metropolitan areas, like Turin, Milan, Rome and others, have launched a debate aimed at producing in due time according to the national indications, the constitution of metropolitan governments. The paper aims at exploring these two different processes looking for elements of innovation: to what extent, despite, or because of the logic of public expenditure reduction, have they been producing new interesting work hypothesis to overcome the limits of current forms of government and introducing new governance forms taking into account the complexity of contemporary urban condition? Which new territorial geographies have been proposed and by whom? To what extent spatial planning and urban studies have contributed to this debate- directly and indirectly? The paper will first present general considerations on this process and then will in particular focus on the Lombardy context, and the urban region of Milan, in order to develop specific critical reflections on the significance of the current debat
La solitudine delle istituzioni, processi decisionali e autonomia locale: de-centrare il decentramento
No full textPaper presentato alla XXIV Conferenza Aisre, Infrastrutture e territorio effetti locali di opere infrastrutturali sovracomunale, atti pubblicati CD-ROM
15 Years Of Strategic Planning in Italian Cities: Which Influences on Ordinary Spatial Planning and Planning Styles?
No full textAlmost fifteen years have passed since the first experiments of spatial planning have been launched in
Italy; almost 70 since when the national planning law has been adopted, defining goals, objectives, forms
of spatial planning. The last 30 years have been characterised by a large debate about the limits of the
idea and interpretation of spatial planning provided by a law, which though considered old and to be
changed already a few years after approval, is still ruling the field. Nevertheless since the middle of the
1990’s some strong innovations have been introduced. Among them the regionalisation of legislative
power and competences in the field and the introduction of new planning tools aiming at coping with the
debated limits and pitfalls of fifty years of spatial planning. An important role in this debate has been
played by experimentations of strategic planning, developed in the form of voluntary processes cby
some local administrations, with the help of different experts. After the first contraposition between
statutory planning and strategic planning, which characterised the first period, strategic and statutory
planning have essentially coexisted. The aim of this paper is to provide a reflection upon the effects of
this coexistence and figure out to what extent and if strategic planning has informed somehow, directly
and indirectly, statutory planning, introducing innovations in planning styles, as it aimed to, at least, at
the beginning. The paper will reconstruct, through cases and literature, the results of this coexistence,
looking in particular for elements able to produce a general reform which it still expected by many
planners and scholars of planning in Italy, and that in the last government agenda has recently turned to
be a task to be accomplished. On the background the challenges related to the ‘smart cities’ perspective
and the economic crisis, but also the new debate on metropolitan governance, which could play a role in
relaunching the debate
URBAN CENTER FOR URBAN REGIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO REFLECT UPON A NEW URBAN QUESTION
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" Parigi: un cantiere di riflessione sulla città contemporanea", in Pari(s) comprendre, amenager et gouverner la ville contemporaine (sezione a cura di Valeria Fedeli)
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