Planning with the inhabitants: open issues of a shared experience

Each story involving shared planning is a process that calls for ‘great commitment and hard work’, as De Carlo tells us: it involves producing materials, dedicating time, energy and resources that are seemingly ‘over-plentiful’. The story of the Quartieri laboratory in San Donato is no exception, and has proven an interesting experience for various reasons: it provided a means to approach transformation of the territory based on thorough and shared knowledge of the individual local entities; it boosted and provided a framework for the city’s most strategic choices; and it built up a repertoire of specific projects for the three-year Public works plan which were also deposited in the Services plan and Regulatory plan.