The video shows the PRU's of Emilia Romagna, organised in three categories as a function of their main field of application and prior functions:
1. The problems characterising small centres are those typically associated with the revitalisation of small towns, where the preservation of the existing landscape and structures, often carried out through projects of renovation of public spaces, is compounded by the delocalisation of production and service activities.
2. Peripheral area are characterised by problems such as widespread deterioration of housing facilities and social conditions, which are particularly evident in public housing zones, and require renewal interventions designed to improve the range of services made available to the inhabitants as well as the renewal of the buildings. In such districts, renewal programs are often flanked by actions of a social nature and infrastructural interventions.
3. The activities envisaged by R.L. 19/98 are exercised primarily in abandoned industrial sites: in Emilia-Romagna such areas add up to a major reserve of urbanised plots to be reconverted to new functions. At the same time, they entail problems of economic feasibility and environmental sustainability, as are frequently associated with reclamation needs.

The urban regeneration policies of the Region promote complex programs affecting the urbanised territory and mobilising the resources and actions of different regional planning sectors, integrating different fields of structural intervention: i.e., urban functions of excellence, mobility, the requalification of environmental systems, security, services to the citizens, etc.Regional Law 19/98 "Urban renewal standards" has established the urban renewal programs (PRU’s) as standard instruments for the transformation of city areas that have lost their original function or are undergoing a process of deterioration affecting the buildings, the environment and living conditions.
The PRU is an executive town planning instrument characterised by a plurality of functions and types of intervention, as well as the participation of public and private resources; its goal is to govern the transformation of the city as consolidated according to the predictions of the town planning instruments in force. With the financial contribution of the Region, R.L. 19/98 encourages the initiatives of the Communes promoting programs to be realised with the participation of public and private operators through procedures involving competitions open to the public, ensuring transparent forms for reaching general consensus based on the institution of program agreements.
Through ad hoc calls for bids, the law provides funds for the PRU’s promoting integrated building interventions subsidised by public funds and infrastructures designed to improve the quality of settlements.
In its allocation of resources to the sector for the 2000-2005 five-year period, the Emilia-Romagna Region made available to the Communes a total of 70 million Euro for their Urban Renewal Programs and activated private investments totalling over 800 million Euro. So far, 60 program agreements have been approved, relating to as many PRU’s, with a regional contribution worth 68,484,766.07 Euro for interventions having the following objectives:
- Erp – including restoration – interventions (38.48%)
- Subsidised building interventions (34.56%)
- Interventions on infrastructures, public services and urbanisation programs (26.9%)