The portrait of a changing

Abstract

In the early years of the Emilia-Romagna Region activity the preservation of historic centers and the urban development management are main themes of action. All municipalities develop regulatory plans with particular attention to the preservation of the existing environment. Housing policies encourage the conservation, which, however, remains less important compared to the residential expansion. In 1985 the Legge Galasso exhorts Italian Regions to provide landscape plans and towards the end of the decade the regional territorial planning activity assumes the landscape as a territorial invariant. During Nineties urban design revamps, so that the redevelopment of brownfield sites becomes the main topics of interest.