ABSTRACT

This chapter briefly reviews the features of the process investigated and its qualifying traits, offers some considerations of a more general nature on the planning style, on governance problems and on the role of the link between forms of knowledge, practices and interactions and finally it identifies some possible suggestions which might be generalised to cover other contexts with similar levels of complexity. The City of Cities Strategic Project constituted an important opportunity for the researchers in the working group and for many of those involved in other ways. It allowed us to formulate and test working and research hypotheses in the planning field concerning both practice and theory. The Milan Strategic Project was significant as an experience because of the idea of governance that it tried to practice. The approach employed was based on profound interaction between the interpretation scenarios and the operational dimension.