La problematica integrazione tra pianificazione territoriale e programmazione degli interventi di ingegneria

The question of planning and interventions programming in the extra-urban areas (defined as the areas outside the compact city) deals, in a growing evidence, with the need to ensure sustainable urban-rural settlement patterns. The need to reduce the environmental footprint can not in fact be sought exclusively within the perimeters high urbanization. In the urban rural fringe the need to closure the environmental cycles and ensure a robust resource conservation place the project of open spaces as a central focus in the debate on urban sustainability. To that centrality of this issue has paid in Italy, in recent decades, the progressive stratification of planning tools that put their central point of view in the extra-urban areas. Two basic instruments of country planning have joined the traditional and consolidated municipal plan: landscape plan and river-basin plans. These two instruments have innovated in deep the way to look and design open spaces, but they have left open issues of integration not only in the field of planning, but also between planning and programming, and between planning and territorial project (which can translate, in turn, plans to green infrastructure projects or governance of specific territorial areas). The programming of territorial public infrastructures and the environment interventions, on the other hand, operates mainly outside the planning framework and the same design of the environmental infrastructures is not the subject of special attention on the part of the plans. The rise of environmental issues and the need to coordinate as effectively as possible the economic resources devoted to the sustainability, represent an opportunity for a critical reflection of the opportunities for integration between planning, programming and project.