The impact of regional design on river agreements: the case of the ombrone river in Tuscany

Abstract

Regional Design is a planning approach employed to build up robust argumentative structures and visions of the future that aim to guide decisions over a long time. The paper investigates the impact of the use of the Regional Design operational approach for the definition of a River Agreement. It traces the path of researchaction that led the local community of Buonconvento, a small Tuscan town, to activate networks of social capital useful to build the Ombrone River Agreement. The methodology of analysis builds on Faludi's concept of 'performance' and falls within four main areas of observation.

Form and Structure of the Knowledge Framework for Urban Planning: Methodological Approach and Assessment Issues: The Case Study of the Municipality of Fondi Urban Plan

“…The intention is not only to ensure, at the future planning stage of the general variant, the identification of a network of guidelines and nodes to be systematized and enhanced within a vision that unites all levels of the territory [12][13][14], but also, in parallel, for the population, it is an opportunity to get to know the Municipality of Fondi, and for its promotion, it ensures the future policies of renovatio urbis the best degree of meaning, understanding and coherence [15].…”