DAL PATTO PER L’ARNO AI CONTRATTI DI FIUME DEGLI AFFLUENTI: ESPERIENZE E PROSPETTIVE NELL’AREA METROPOLITANA FIORENTINA

Abstract

This contribuIon highlights the role of river contracts as so[ governance tools designed to acIvate wide-area collaboraIve dynamics that transcend insItuIonal boundaries and faces contemporary challenges, from climate change to ecological transiIon. By retracing some acIon-research experiences conducted by the Department of Architecture (DIDA) of the University of Florence in the last five years, we analyse the experiences neighbouring the Pesa valley (Elsa and Greve basins), conceived as processes for implemenIng both the Arno “contract of contracts” and the regional and metropolitan planning instruments (Strategic and Territorial Plan) of the FlorenIne context. Common themes and peculiariIes emerge, with respect to a wide and varied landscape and territorial context, but also in relaIon to the interests and forms of governance to be acIvated or already in place, as well as for the role played by the University in assisIng the processes in these contexts.