Young investigator training program 2018 - Regional planning and design, from theory to practices

The contribution aims to explore new paths for planning at the regional and metropolitan level, in a context of governance rescaling in which spatial planning policies and practices, still traditionally anchored to rigid administrative boundaries, are now challenged to be reinvented. Processes of defining and redefining sub-regional boundaries call for spatial visioning and design for shaping the boundaries of urban regions, providing pro-active knowledge of their characteristics and trends and conceiving shared visions of their spatial development. The performance of regional planning and the contribution of regional design practices in these settings will be the focus of the roundtable, relating this performance to characteristics of the institutional context.