Strategic Planning for Contemporary Urban Regions. City of Cities: A Project for Milan

摘要

Strategic planning has been widely used as a practice of urban planning since the 1990s. The process of urbanisation creates a significant pressure on the boundaries of many world cities and enlarges the gap between de facto and de jure cities. The continuous spatial growth of today's cities and city regions even beyond their provinces causes serious difficulties for their municipalities to control this process. Beside the attempt to redefine the agenda of priorities for public action, the book also offers an alternative input to the debate of governance. Furthermore, it provides a detailed case study of a strategic planning process for Milan's urban region.