DIFFUSIONE E DISPERSIONE PRODUTTIVA IN VENETO

The issue of urban sprawl is particularly evident in the Italian North-East and particularly in Veneto. Within the general settlement sprawl, the spreading and fragmentation of the production system is the result of a distinctive mode of transformations induced by the economical processes. The understanding of this phenomenon is a key element in planning policies. In fact, next to the well-known problems related to sprawl, the diffusion of manufacturing activities has resulted the settlements to severe conditions of unsustainability in relations to specific issues such as supply of raw materials, accessibility in general, provision of services, organization of production activities, consumption of soil, etc.. The Veneto Region has tried to solve the problems arising from this situation through specific legislative instruments and territorial plans. Indeed the production facilities sprawl has been dealt with regional laws 80/1980 and 24/1985 that face the problem from the point of view of diffusion in historical town centers and agricultural areas. From a planning perspective, Veneto Region with the Law 11/1987 has remitted all the production facilities outside production settlements, therefore endorsing the diffusion and fragmentation of the production areas. The problem of non-proliferation of sprawl have remained as a key issue in regional coordination plans. This paper wants to illustrate the proposed methodological approach and the principal results of the working group of the Department of Architecture, Planning and Surveying - University of Padua, in the processing steps of the new Regional Territorial Coordination Plan of the Veneto Region.