The seasons of reformer urbanism in Emilia-Romagna

Abstract

In 1971, the urban planning activity is transferred to the Regions, which become a laboratory able to  provide indications of extraordinary importance for national laws.
In Emilia-Romagna, a so-called reformer urbanism is established. A crucial theme is the containment of urban revenue by reducing private forecasts of municipal zoning.
From generational reading criteria of the plans as an instrument of knowledge and periodization of urban and territorial phenomena from the Eighties to the approval of a new regional planning law (LR 20/2000), a new period starts able to innovate the urban planning and territorial cohesion system.
The structural crisis of the economy since 2009 has called into question the structure of plans that have been designed for the growth of settlements. The new paradigm, with which we are required to compare,  is no longer the urban expansion but the urban regeneration.
Then a new season of plans, to rethink the very idea of expansion, has just begun.