Metropolitan Network for Knowledge: Greater Bologna

The Metropolitan City of Bologna has selected, among the projects put forward by the Municipalities and Unions of Municipalities, four proposals, characterised by a broad metropolitan relevance and aimed at achieving the strategic objectives outlined in the programming and planning tools that the Città Metropolitana has adopted in recent years, namely: the ecological transition and the fight against climate change; the reduction of inequalities and fragilities; and the enhancement and development of the knowledge and research system.

In order to take full advantage of the great opportunity offered by the PNRR resources and the European, national, regional and local development…

REFLECTIONS ON REGIONAL TERRITORIAL PLANNING

Carlo Alberto Barbieri, INU – URBIT, Stefania Crotta e Giovanni Paludi, Regione Piemonte


The conference proposes a seminar-like discussion among a number of regions that are facing or have just faced critical issues and opportunities given by a revision of their spatial planning instruments within a  context of continuous and sudden change, characterized by the almost uninterrupted succession of a series of crises (economic, pandemic, geopolitical and energetic).

The choice fell on the Regions of Piemonte, Liguria, Lombardia and Veneto – representatives of Northern Italy and all currently engaged in these processes – to question whether the occasion could be…