The stages of the process

In the last 15 years some considerable changes have taken place in Reggio Emilia, of economic type (positive quantitative indicators with regard to new enterprises, the Gdp, the employment rate, new jobs, an increase in the active population employed, etc.) and of social type (population growth, in particular of non-Community persons), which, together with the downturn in resources, have caused an imbalance between the ‘private’ and the ‘public’ city. A start has now been made on defining an overall, structural and strategic project, with the approval of the town-planning instruments introduced by Regional law 20/2000, in a process that should reconcile the strategic aspects with structural ones, in a dialogue with the community.