21st Century (2000–present)

Rome PRG (2008)

2008 · Italy · Southern Europe · Regional & polycentric planning · Planned by Comune di Roma
Rome PRG 2008, “Sistemi e Regole” sheet 18 (1:10,000): the historic, consolidated and to-be-restructured city read against the environmental system of the Agro Romano south of the centre
Rome PRG 2008, “Sistemi e Regole” sheet 18 (1:10,000): the historic, consolidated and to-be-restructured city read against the environmental system of the Agro Romano south of the centre · © Roma Capitale — used with credit · Roma Capitale, Dipartimento Programmazione e Attuazione Urbanistica — PRG, Sistemi e Regole 1:10.000, foglio 18 (via Internet Archive)

Core idea

Structural axes and green system

Why it matters

Modern statutory framework for Rome

Description

Rome's Piano Regolatore Generale, approved in 2008 after more than a decade of preparation under the Comune di Roma, replaced the city's 1965 master plan. It organises the metropolis through structural axes of rail-based mobility—the so-called 'cura del ferro'—a network of new peripheral centralities intended to decentralise functions from the historic core, and an extensive ecological and green system protecting the Roman campagna. It is a statutory plan covering the whole vast municipal territory.

Significance

The 2008 PRG marked the renewal of Italian statutory planning for the capital, shifting from expansion-oriented zoning towards polycentrism, rail-oriented development and environmental structure. It has been widely discussed in Italian planning culture, both as a sophisticated attempt to reform the master-plan instrument and for the criticism that its negotiated 'centralities' and compensation mechanisms accommodated real-estate interests more than they restructured the city.

What shaped it

Sources

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