Roles of landscape planning in the post-industrial shrinking city: Reflections from Turin, Italy

This paper is one outcome of the joint research project UNI-NUA (Polytechnic University of Turin and The University of Tokyo), based on the authors’ experience staying in Turin and on the seminar Strategic Landscape Planning in the era of population and economic shrinkage: Reflections from Turin, Italy, held on February 21, 2019 at City Lab Tokyo. It illustrates the City of Turin's urban regeneration strategies, coping with shrinkage, with the large amount of post-industrial sites, paying particular attention to the improvement of environmental quality. A system of new urban parks is the outcome of a variety of urban planning tools. The authors discuss the significance of Turin case study with reference to Japan urban shrinkage.