Rome: A New Planning Strategy

Rome: A New Planning Strategylooks at the problems of a city over the last one hundred years and suggests a totally new planning strategy. The book examines the stages that have marked the increase of population and change in land use and analyses the masterplans with which there has been an attempt to control these evolving conditions. Using Rome as a case study, the book deals with the socio-economic effect of an absence of planning strategy during the recent growth of the city. The author presents the characters and features of a new masterplan based on his many years of experience in theoretical and practical planning.

Franco Archibugi has taught economics at the University of Florence, intergral planning at the Universities of Calabria, Palermo and Naples and strategic planning at the Postgraduate School of Public Administration in Rome. He is also the Director of the Planning Studies Center in Rome, a 40-year-old research body devoted to a multidisciplinary approach to planning.