AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

GIVING OPERATIONALITY TO STRATEGIC PLANNING: FROM THE VISION 2030 TO THE TERRITORIAL PLAN OF THE METROPOLITAN CITY OF FLORENCE

8 Jul 2025, 12:00

10m

29

Oral SS 10 | Shaping Regional Futures Toward Sustainable Transitions: Community Involvment In Visioning and Implementation SS_10 SHAPING REGIONAL FUTURES TOWARD SUSTAINABLE TRANSITIONS: COMMUNITY INVOLVMENT IN VISIONING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Speakers

Giuseppe De Luca (University of Study in Florence) Valeria Lingua (University of Florence, Department of Architecture)

Description

The contribution reflects on the way to give operationality to strategic plan, by describing the path from the definition of the strategic metropolitan plan (SMP) and its implementation through operational projects that are the base of the territorial metropolitan plan (TMP) of the metropolitan City of Florence.
The SMP has provided to connect places with strategic development directions, providing with a visioning process able to define, select and make sense of the complex reality of the metropolitan city and its positioning into the global context. In such a complex framework, the making of the strategic metropolitan plan (PSM) has been conducted as a creative regional design practice for framing the urban region and envisioning its possible future development. By using spatial representations and shared visions, the debate has raised on physical changes, sharing responsibilities and resources. In the implementation phase, this process has conveyed to conceive a multi-level and trans-scalar approach to local projects, conceived as part of the integrated visions of the SMP.
With the TMP, the Metropolitan City of Florence has embarked on an institutional experimentation aimed at simplifying the metropolitan planning, drawing up a Metropolitan Territorial Plan (PTM) With a form and nature that make it more in line with the social and economic conditions of our time.
The TMP of Florence is structured as an instrument for territorialization of the contents of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan, adopting at the same time a dialogic and cooperative approach, therefore not imposing on the municipalities, but rather governance made of soft power, multi sectoral and multi scalar instrument to guide the multiple directions of change. The PTM is divided into three main components: the Knowledge Framework, the Statute and the Proposals Framework which, organized in Strategies and Meta-projects, has the objective of serving as a grid to identify, first, and then define, some design solutions of “issues” subways.