Riordino territoriale, governo e governance metropolitana nel caso veneziano

The recent directions of the Italian Government for the establishment of Metropolitan Cities are an important opportunity for the reorganization of territorial governance in the most important Italian cities. However, these directions show important weaknesses: First, in most cases, the choice of provincial boundaries appears to be not consistent with spatial and territorial dynamics; second, the approach is mainly Government-driven and relies essentially on a legislative and administrative logic; third, their effectiveness is conditioned by the capability, above all by the national and regional levels of Government to design and implement a process of institutional reorganization that involves the different levels of local powers. The Venetian case confirms the importance of above elements. On one side, a more coherent metropolitan perspective should consider the central part of Veneto region; on the other, a metropolitan policy can be promoted and effectively managed only with a mix of statutory and no-statutory approaches and tools. Against this background, the most important conditioning factors are the difficulty to share a common vision of Central Veneto's future development, and conflicts between the different levels of government. There's the risk, therefore, for the public and political debate on the metropolitan development of Central Veneto, to remain a narrative, so important as a particular way of representing and contextualising the most important problems this area suffers from, but very little effective in innovating urban governance.