Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica
Roma

Piazza Farnese, 44
00186 Roma
tel.: + 39 06 68134341
fax: + 39 06 68214773
website: http://www.inu.it
e-mail: inusegreteria@tin.it; inuprom@tin.it


Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (Ente di diritto pubblico di alta cultura e di coordinamento tecnico. DPR 1114 del 21/11/1949; i.e. a Public body legally recognised by the Italian President of the Republic) has been founded in 1930 in order to promote studies in the field of planning. Inu is a cultural and scientific Association of practitioners and public bodies with no commercial purposes.
In 1997 Inu organised with the Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici and the Comune di Roma the 2nd European Biennial of Towns and Town planners and the First Exhibition of European Planning with more than one hundred cities represented.

Inu edizioni is the publishing company entirely owned by Inu, which publishes the main Italian journals of Planning, Urbanistica .
Urbanistica was founded in 1932 and has been since then the official journal of Inu. It has promoted and disseminated scientific knowledge in the field of planning and urbanism. The journal is a forum for communication between planning practitioners, teachers, researchers and students; it is also of interest to an informed general readership. Past editors have been A. Olivetti (1949-1952), G. Astengo (1952-1977), M. Romano (1977-1984), B. Secchi (1984-1992), and P. Gabellini (1994-1999); the new issue is be edited by D. Borri and W. Fabietti. The Review is published two times per year.

Inu has promoted the International Association "Planum", which is going to become the owner and manager of the on-line Journal. Planum has been established in 1999, and was officially presented at the 3rd European Biennial in Germany (September 1999).