ABSTRACT
The city of Turin is a well-known case owing to the peculiar characteristics of its social, economic and urban development in the twentieth century and, after the Second World War. The metropolisation process has invested especially growing parts of the plain area, enlarging what has been called the Turin metropolitan area (TMA), while the mountain parts have remained mostly untouched. According to Indovina and colleagues, the metropolisation process is the result of the spreading on the territory of population, housing, activities, commercial centres, and services. After the Second World War the city of Turin developed according to the Fordist model and its development was mainly based on the automotive sector. The real challenge for a territory like the Turin square is how to govern its dynamics, and with which tools and which institutional and governance structures. Finally national Act 56/2014 introduced the new metropolitan cities (MCs) that were established at the beginning of 2015 in ten Italian metropolitan areas.
