Innovative Tools for the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Administrative Action of the Metropolitan Cities: the Strategic Operational Programme

The urban policies and territorial live a period of profound transformation, characterized by a shift to new approaches and governance tools. At the end of a period characterized by the need to overcome the rigidity of the urban plan, which resulted at the operational level extreme fragmentation of instruments and types of intervention, today we are witnessing a phase of overall rethinking of the strategy and operational tools. Decisive for the purposes of this change are no results the impulse of European urban policy, the uncertainties of the national framework and the new requirements for the financing of interventions related to the lack of public resources. Despite this, there is the general feeling, that current approach to urban policies, is not the proper one to face the new challenges that the city, in a context of increasing global competitiveness, are called to face. The present work draws inspiration from arrangement of urban and territorial policies hypothesized in the last decade, with particular reference to the role of promotion that the newly founded metropolitan cities could have for economic growth and development of the territories, in order to propose an innovative model of operational planning strategic that seeks to integrate two essential aspect: the strategic component and the programmatic component, in order to lend greater administrative action of the government of the metropolitan cities.