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The crisis of urban planning in the era agreed

Almost all planning instruments have appeared in recent years - integrated programs of action, district contracts, recovery plans, etc. .. - Focus on the idea of \u200b\u200bconcerted planning, with the aim of preventing upstream of the most frequent causes of conflicts between government and private - inequality, etc. - and thus make the process smoother planning.


Many of these tools, however, are based on assumptions that undermines the same schedule as we know, that is regulated by a general plan, in particular the idea that urban transformation is taken by agreement between administrations and land and, above all, one may make exception to the plan.


These developments, however, in a general context of continued deregulation implemented by urban standards like the building amnesty, however, have de-legitimized the plan actually making a simple task for recording architectural transformations agreed. Planning as a technique for governing the transformation of the city as a system you are replacing a schedule of payments for projects of varying quality, but not oriented to a vision of the city system.
And what is more problematic is that in this new scenario are also dramatically changed the balance of power between directors, who are called to plan in the public interest, and individuals who, being the main providers of resources for urban municipalities in the form of charges, not actors but are actually simple actors with a specific gravity factor in decisions on regional planning.


seem to be many Italian cities on their skin suffering the effects of this distorted idea of \u200b\u200bplanning: in Rome the continuing urbanization of large segments of the Roman with new residential neighborhoods in a city that has already an offer of accommodation much higher than the application seems to describe well the subordination of private interests in planning.


If the considerations we have made are valid, what idea of \u200b\u200bplanning and with what responsibilities, if you still have one, we run? It is said that the planning is in crisis because the cities have stopped growing, it seems to me rather than the urban crisis is primarily a crisis of decision-making power of the planners towards a growth that has never stopped.