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In the now thirty-year-long history of the construction of a formal dimension of the metropolisation process in Italy, the dynamics of administrative reorganisation triggered by Law 56/2014 saw the emergence of the metropolitan city as an element of rupture in the relations between territorial levels. These dynamics are explored through the Roman case, in which the process of institutionalisation of the metropolitan city presents numerous criticalities with respect to the central city’s value as capital, the organisational structure within the metropolitan territory, the relationship with the Latium Region and the relationship with the State regarding European programming.

Negli ultimi decenni la partecipazione attiva degli abitanti per l’interpretazione, la gestione e la pianificazione del paesaggio ha assunto un ruolo sempre più rilevante, grazie agli indirizzi proposti dalla Convenzione europea del paesaggio che individua l’esperienza e il sentire delle popolazioni come una fondamentale fonte informativa. Nonostante le difficoltà implicite nella valorizzazione di una simile fonte, il confronto tra il sapere contestuale ed esperto può favorire l’elaborazione di nuove conoscenze, a patto che si possano confrontare le informazioni e mettere in effettiva e fruttuosa comunicazione i due saperi. During the last decades, the active participation of the inhabitants in the interpretation, management and planning of landscape has assumed an increasingly important role, thanks to the challenges and understandings provided by the European Landscape Convention which advocated the participation and enhanced the role of the populations as fundamental sources of information. Despite the difficulties linked to the valorization of such assets, the comparison between expert and public views can favour the production of new knowledge as long as these information and sources could be compared and connected through fruitful approaches. The present contribution finds his roots in the development of Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Landscape Plan and, adopting a participatory approach, tried to investigate the perceived landscapes of risk and degradation. The focus is on three categories of areas and sites perceived as degraded, specifically those resulting from the massive presence of abandonment former military areas, hydrogeological problems and, finally, quarry activities. After presenting the most relevant aspects and the results of the geo-cartographic analysis, the limits and opportunities of the research are highlighted. On the one hand, similarly to other participatory projects, the analysis presents problems in terms of quality and territorial coverage, on the other hand, it offers reflections on the possible synergies between local and expert knowledge.

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2019-107993GB-I00

The impact analysis and the identification of the most effective policy recommendations in order to set or refocus investments in Regional (ROP) or National Operating Programmes (NOP) is one of the most important challenges in the EU cohesion policy but no agreed standard methodology has been identified so far. To the scope, the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodological approach is argued to be one of the most important in accompanying the policymaker in related decision-making processes. The strength of this approach lays in the importance of place evidence, and in the capacity of reading geographic complexity of territories starting from the basis of their specific different features. Moreover, it is shared the opinion that a ‘good’ TIA needs a powerful data support (analytic and cartographic) and qualitative-quantitative models to associate judgments, in response to the questions to which evaluation is required, including the development and comparison of policy options supporting policymaking (Prezioso 2018, 2019). During the initial analysis and tests of the STEMA Model (Prezioso 2018a, 2019, 2020) with regards to the methodology implementation, Social Housing and Social Affordable Housing policy sectors have been included in the assessment process. They are part of the Italian NOP 2020 named “Governance”.

Semiotics and Geopolitics intersect on one fundamental aspect: representations. This chapter explains how geopolitical representations function starting from theories by Agnew, O’Loughlin, O Tuathail and Yves Lacoste, and how they take the form of narration, discourse, toponyms and images.

Europeanization refers to the process of integrating EU public policy into the domestic discourse and national policy. Two main mechanisms of Europeanization of national policy planning can be identified: a soft mechanism characterized by policy transfer and learning, and a hard mechanism determined by the obligation to comply to EU regulations. The aim of the article is to explore these mechanisms of Europeanization within the regional cohesion policy context in Italy. The first will be illustrated by results of PRIN survey on stakeholder awareness of key concepts of European territorial development mainstream; the second mechanism will be showed by the analysis of ROPs elaborated by Italian Regions under ERDF policy process., Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 Special Issue (2019)

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, Series 14 Vol 2 Special Issue (2019)