Urbanistica n. 127 May-August 2005 Distribution by www.planum.net Paolo Avarello The future of town planning and Urbanistica Problems, policies, and research edited by Federica Legnani and Michele Zazzi A new water culture. Opportunities for territorial planning Pedro Arrojo Agudo The commitment of the Scientific Community for a New Water Culture Federica Legnani Hydrogeological stability, water protection, territorial and urban planning José Esteban Castro Sustainability and policy innovation in water management Michele Zazzi Participation and negotiation process for water basins management Projects and implementation edited by Paolo Galuzzi The government of urban transition. The new masterplan of Ivrea Paolo Avarello From the didatic to the expert city Giuseppe Campos Venuti Ivrea, yesterday and tomorrow Federico Oliva A plan for the government of territory Carlo Alberto Barbieri Territories of masterplan Paolo Galuzzi The two historical cities of Ivrea Alfredo Mela Social expectations and plan Cassino: new town plan Elio Piroddi The plan as a program for the complexity Gianluigi Nigro A deep-felt innovation Profiles and practices Nicolò Savarese Seven important questions and some implied considerations Methods and tools edited by Anna Moretti, Marco Facchinetti, Paola Pucci Manuals, handbooks, good practice for designing roads Anna Moretti An alternative experience Paola Pucci The Italian experiences: between atlas and guide-lines for the road projects Marco Facchinetti The use of guidelines abroad: Vermont case study Lucina Caravaggi Road’s integrated planning in Emilia-Romagna Giuseppe Barbieri The ‘complex’ road planning Stephen Marshall Building on Buchanan: evolving road hierarchy for today’s urbanism Jean Pierre Martin The architecture of the street of Lyon Received books Territories of masterplan Programma di interventi is assumed, by Four territories have been Carlo Alberto Barbieri ambientali drawn up by overstepping Ivrea (through defined. They contain Province of Turin (2002) Montenavale tunnel, macro-environments, useful U 127/05 brought to projects financing provided by the new for planning analysis and The new masterplan of as defined by Protocollo di masterplan); the stretch contents: territory of hill Ivrea is part of a program Agenda 21. Through this included between Rivarolo, system surrounding 5 lakes; framework and territorial negotiation, some actions, metropolitan area of Turin territory of river plain; planning with purposes and aimed to protection and and Pinerolese. Masterplan territory of the first city; choices, in order to give an development of woodlands, also defines the new outline territory of modern city. 'added planning value' and of vitality and bio-diversity of of the important axis north- Inside these territories, operativeness, as well as to ecosystem, are in progress. south Ivrea-Valle d'Aosta- systems and components consider the positive effects France. have been defined: towards PRG and finally to The new masterplan and New masterplan suggests to settlement system; experiment both an over-municipal planning grant possible and infrastructural system; innovative cooperation Structural and operating efficacious relationship environmental and process between different purposes and contents of between mobility, uses and agricultural system. institutional government PRG 2000 update and territorial framework near Design and normative levels and a co-planning develop purposes and the station and Movicentro. contents, about the four process of structural contents defined by Piano The Piano stralcio per territories and the relevant contents. territoriale regionale (PTR), l'assetto idrogeologico (PAI) systems, depend on concerning territory of Ivrea of drainage area of Po structural contents of Co-planning a structural as regards Piedmont ridge (approved in 2001) masterplan and they are framework of re-balance to territorial proposes the object to grant related on strategic Territorial, infrastructural role of Ivrea as important a suitable security level in purposes to be developed and environmental sub-regional pole, as respect with hydraulic and by policies, programmes, framework has been industrial area of regional hydro geological projects and actions in the defined since the start of interest, as sub-regional disarrangement, river areas next years. PRG 2000. Conditionings, university pole. and water system The first goal is relevant to resources, opportunities, As regards strategies and protection, land uses accessibility and public open problems were indications provided by programming for protection utilities development; pointed out, in order to draw Piano territoriale di and consolidation of soils, masterplan considers up a shared structural coordinamento (PTC) of recreational uses along river 'infrastructural reform' as vision, characterized by co- Province of Turin, choice of areas. The more evident the structural condition for planning until the end of PRG concerns the control of effect consists in the territory development and masterplan procedure. residential growth aimed to definition of a new 'area C' redevelopment. Drawing up Progetto settlement quality, urban that follows the perimeter of The second goal consists in preliminare of PRG, ended fabric completion and the floods of 2000. The strengthen the industrial in 2002, allowed to develop redevelopment, urban embankment upstream of choice, by rationalization an institutional useful abandoned areas Ponte Vecchio, in part under and support of existing dialogue with Region and transformation and re-use construction and in part in polarities, as well as by Province of Turin and to find (ex Montefibre and ex course of planning, involves development of new synergies with strategic Varzi). As regards industrial over-municipal interests and technologies, of small- actions carried out in areas, masterplan aims to protect built-up medium business, of new metropolitan area of Turin strengthened the role of areas. economies and services by Strategic Plan, Torino Ivrea as one of the "induced sector to be developed Internazionale 2000. re-balance core" connected Structural contents and along urban Olivetti system to the more strategic "points strategic purposes and in abandoned areas (ex Programming agreements of systemic re-balance", in Plan territories. During the Montefibre and ex Varzi). from territory order to promote new early stages of new The third goal consists in Territory of Ivrea, interested outlines of territorial and masterplan drawing up, increasing environmental, by socio-economical economical system. As integrated remarks have settlement and public process about industrial regards agricultural territory, been developed. Structural, utilities system in value, by crisis since the end of the soils, characterized by environmental, planning emphasizing, as regards eighties, was impelled by excellent and good considerations were carried environment, the territory of necessity and opportunity to productiveness, have been out, in order to define a '5 lakes', the hill system create shared strategies, defined and protected, in 'territory of Ivrea', to which territory, the river Dora concerning new local order to increase the refer PRG choices. This Baltea territory as development and territorial economical and territory coincides with that environmental cornerstones organization. Ivrea and 123 environmental value. As one included inside the to be integrated with urban surrounding municipalities concerns mobility system, municipal boundary, parks and gardens and have been promoted and PTC defines a possible because of formal and legal open spaces; as regards developed, since 1998, the layout of dorsale aspects, but masterplan settlement, by considering Patto territoriale del Pedemontana, as regards drawing up considered a settlement system of Ivrea Canavese, that gathered absent and difficult greater and substantial both as a 'city to be relationships, decisions, stretches: the stretch Biella- dimension, as regards protected and redeveloped' alliances aimed to make Ivrea for which an morphological, (ancient and modern social development policies integrated use between environmental, settlement, historical fabrics, hilly, clear. motorway and roads system infrastructural elements. residential, industrial Urbanistica 2 www.planum.net fabrics) and as a with Piano paesistico of in such a way as to 'transformation city' Province of Turin, in order minimize their impact, in (transformation areas for to support and develop order to integrate urban integrated settlement, some peculiarities: territory environment and territory. for activities and public of 5 lakes and hilly Infrastructural planning utilities). environments are represents an opportunity to The fourth goal, at last, characterized by high experiment ecological consists in increasing naturalistic value; hilly compensation and historical, cultural, environments with Serra environmental design at the architectonical, planning morenica represent the same time of projecting heritage of Modern Age in main geomorphologic them. value, by a new protection system that influenced of historical fabrics and settlement localization and open spaces and by an defined geographic identity; innovative approach for ecobiotic connection system protection and of river Dora Baltea redevelopment of Olivetti represents the protection neighbourhood. It's and value territory of river important to underline as areas that connect alpine- some choices of masterplan hilly system with agricultural defined