Governing the territory in a phase of globalization : the issue of the territorial planning and the local development

Abstract EN

One of the consequences of the present of the financial, communicative and decisional nets globalization is to make ineffective the traditional instruments for the direct control of the territory by the public authorities.

The territories are nowadays structured in over-regional and over-national nets and fluxes which tend to establish direct relations with the single local systems (i.e., towns, districts, regions, tourist resorts, etc).

In this complex situation, the territorial planning shall thus and in first place propose itself as governance, that is to say as governing negotial process for the cooperative and conflictual interactions between subjects which are capable, for various reasons, to act on the territory and transform it.

The scope of this research is to investigate on the role of the territorial planning in relation with two relational aspects: global and local.

The target is that to locate a methodological approach able to have an “open” view to the territorial phenomenon in a globalized context; to define the territorial planning’s role, procedures and instruments.