The urban reform within the complex Italian situation

Abstract

Urban reform has tried to make its way in Italy by the develop of plans which aimed at dismissing the “land rent urban model” in favour of other proposals pursuing the struggle against these “rents”’ production, promoting a new and fair “urban model”. This urban reform had also to deal with legislation, driving laws that would establish the rules to follow at any administration. This way, the traditional relation between urbanism and politics is set out again: the urbanism is considered as the discipline responsible for the plan management, and politics as the citizenship way of acting that implicates the city government and makes it essential in order to inspire the reform that has already been launched. Both categories, the plan management closely linked to the government of the city, are the two main references of the urban reform. This paper exposes the case of the city of Rome as the most prominent experience, but also as a failure that, however, doesn’t mean a loss of hope for the started reform.