Evolution in Regional Planning: The Italian Path

Authors

  • Giuseppe De Luca Assoc. Prof., Architecture Department, Urban and Regional Planning Section University of Florence
  • Valeria Lingua Researcher, Architecture Department, Urban and Regional Planning Section University of Florence

Keywords:

Regional Spatial Planning, Territorial Cooperation, Regional Strategies

Abstract

Focus of the paper are the models and practices of regional spatial planning activated in Italy in the most recent years, in order to evidence the innovation occurred and the challenges that regional planning institutions are facing. Compared to a theoretical and legislative framework that tends to separate the different types of regional planning (spatial, landscape, development planning), the experimental framework is characterized by pluralistic approaches in which a balance between a normative and a strategic nature of the territorial plan is searched, in order to introduce perspectives of economic and social development. In a continuous process of institutional reflexivity and learning, the regional institutions have now achieved that the notion of 'region' has become more about social interaction than geographical location. For that, interesting experiences of intraregional and interregional cooperation are developing, as called Interregional table of PadanoAlpine-Maritime Macro Area in Northern Italy, a place-based approach generating supra-local shared visions that are of a certain interest.

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Author Biographies

Giuseppe De Luca, Assoc. Prof., Architecture Department, Urban and Regional Planning Section University of Florence

Born in S. Giovanni in Fiore, has studied Urban and Regional Planning at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and Planning studies at the London School of Economics. Actually he is Associate Professor of Urban planning at the University of Florence, School of Architecture teaching Spatial Planning; he teach at the PhD course of "Progettazione urbanistica e territoriale" of the Florence University. From 1991 to 2004 he has been Full Researcher of Territorial and Urban Planning at the University of Basilicata. Actually he is Director of the series «Territorio, Pianificazione, Ambiente » published by Altralinea in Florence; and correspondent of the magazine «Archivio di studi urbani e regionali», published by F. ANGELI in Milan. Starting on September 2005 he is member of the INU (National Institute of Urban and Regional Planning) national board, in Rome. Starting on July 2007 to May 2011 he was Director of the "Giovanni Astengo Foundation", Inu’s branch, that organise national course of professional formation in urban and regional planning fields; and from May 2011 he is General Secretery of the INU.

Valeria Lingua, Researcher, Architecture Department, Urban and Regional Planning Section University of Florence

Born in Cuneo, she has studied Urban Planning and Local Development at the Polytechnic of Turin and Amenagement at the Institute d'Urbanisme de Paris XII. Actually she is Aggregate professor of Urban planning at the University of Florence, School of Architecture, where she teaches Urban Management and Urban and Regional Analysis in the undergraduate curricula and Regional Design in the PhD course of "Progettazione urbanistica e territoriale" (Urban and territorial design). From 2002 and 2008 she has taken part of the didactic staff in different courses and workshops on urban and regional planning at the Polytechnic of Turin and she had been lecturer of Foundations of Urban Planning at Camerino University.

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08-02-2015

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Luca, G. D., & Lingua, V. (2015). Evolution in Regional Planning: The Italian Path. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2(2), 14–33. Retrieved from https://iconarp.ktun.edu.tr/index.php/iconarp/article/view/61

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