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particularly emphasized, in our case, by the
actual situation of a territory involved in
considerable globalization processes. In this
perspective the planning process cannot exhaust
itself in the attempt to coordinate the
municipalities institutional action, since an
authentic cooperation must base itself on the
self-government of the local realities and thus on
the social actors’ permanent agreeement.
This implies the attempt to let grow the
territorial sujectivity in view of the exploitation
of the local systems and of the territorial
identity.
For this aim it is necessary that the
affirmation of the collective subjectivities, which
has somehow already expressed itself with the
adhesion of a pluraility of actors, institutional or
not, might turn into a shared projectual
engagement which can express its selforganizing
capacity with actions proposal which
have to respond to the local expectations and
interests.
The indication to articulate the plan process
strenghtening the local decision systems goes
towards the direction in which the local
initiatives have the aim to strenghten the
autonomous capacity of a specific area to look
for its own development system. In specific, the
plan indications identified as follows:
a- It supplies specific knowlegde because it
thematizes and visualizes facts and problems at
systemic aggregation level which often slips
away from the attention of the aforesaid
interlocutors;
b- It suggests to their problems possible
alternative solutions, solutions which just derive
from the capacity to see and to think the territory
on a different scale and in any case more
complex, to point out the problems in terms not
purely quantitative, to seize the possible
synergies with other subjects’ action, etc etc.
In such a way it is built an environment
favourable to the development starting from
each territory’s peculiarities and wealths, in the
global competition age are evidenced the
advantages of territorial guideline which,
engaging the typical resources aims at the
quality and difference of the offer of products
and services.
Notes
1. The territorial plan, meant as scientific
definition moment, neutral, ofan ideal territory
organization within a clear and firm context for
the distribution of the administrative, financial
and political resources amongst the various
government’s levels, formulates ideal
hypotheses from the point of view of the whole
rationality of the territory’s use. Therefore “no”
to the homologation, but research and promotion
of integration chances based on the exploitation
of a territory’s differences.
2. It must be rather thought in local systems net
terms (Magnani A. 2000, Ratti R. 1997) which,
coordinating and netting by themselves, create
synergies, that is to say they increase the whole
wealth, not only economical but also social and
cultural, at disposal of an area that is subject to
this insitutional competence of the Region.
According to Dematteis (1995,46) the local
development is always the combination of
something which is fixed with something which
is mobile: the potential specific resources of a
territory with the overlocal nets.
This gives space, anyway, on the territory, to
various development relations, that is to say to
different types of combinations between global
nets, local nets and territory’s resources. There
are architectures which have a major
endogenous component, thus a more or less
strong local identity is noticed (identity meant as
selforganizing capacity, that is to say as specific
principles of local organization). Ther are those
which, instead, strongly depend from
organizations, from overlocal nets.
3. The local identity is meant as a resource, from
the economic point of view, as the territory’s
competitive advantage, from the social and
political point of view (that is to say the
autonomy of the “local”) and from the cultural
point of view, as cultural variety, of a specific
territory (Poli D. 1998, Magnaghi A. 2005 .
4. In a globalization and growing competition
age to promote the sustainability means before
all to strenghten local identities and peculiarities
(Rullani E.1994), indispensable values to be able
to place oneself on the market offering products
improbably subject to world competition. To
build “local systems” is indispensable to
compete with continuity against the economic
trends’s changes.
5. The necessity of a cooperative approach to the
territory’s managemnent and planning is
particularly emphasized by the actual situation
of a territory involved in important globalization
processes (Dematteis G. 1995) .
6. Quoted in Dematteis (1997), these are public
and private local subjects’ self-governing forms.
These local self-governing forms are those who
allows the mobilization od endogenous
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