Le risposte degli urbanisti tra tradizione disciplinare, università, professione e partecipazione politica

The chapter examines how urban planners linked to the School responded to the city’s transition from an industrial metropolis to a complex post-industrial urban region between the early 1990s and the late 2000s. It identifies three recurring forms of engagement: assuming political and administrative responsibilities, conducting research and consultancy for institutions, and preparing urban, territorial, and environmental plans. Focusing on the 1995 Turin Master Plan, urban regeneration programmes, strategic planning, and reforms of Piedmont’s planning system, shows how academic research, professional practice, and public action became mutually reinforcing. The Turin experience demonstrates that planning was not merely an applied or technical activity, but a collective process of knowledge production and disciplinary innovation. Through cooperation among universities, administrations, professionals, and political actors, planning provided a shared framework for mobilising resources, coordinating projects, and addressing metropolitan, environmental, and governance challenges. This governance season reveals planning as a discussable, cooperative, and operational public practice.