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This paper presents the policymaking process for the Agenda for the Sustainable Development of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), as an integration and orientation device for current and implementing planning tools, but above all a reference framework and an operative tool that confers meaning and makes it possible to monitor metropolitan policies and projects. Nevertheless, it directs programming on funding channels relating to the SDGs. The integrated projects for sustainability are the core element of the new way of operating, with the aim to stimulate collective action at all levels, promote active discussions and, around these, build the consent and the progressive definition of agreements. They are the fundamental pieces of a new organizational structure for the metropolitan city of Cagliari: the metropolitan sustainable infrastructure. They act in a complementary way on multiple dimensions of urban organization and on several spatial scales with the aim to implement the specific sustainability objectives of the Metropolitan City. In this sense, participation processes are encouraged in relation to the integrated projects to be implemented, acting as “catalysts”. Public Administrations, Authorities and stakeholders variably involved in each integrated project will formally define program agreements in specific areas of intervention to implement the sustainable integrated projects. This actively contribute to innovating the metropolitan governance processes in terms of tools and procedures in line with the EU and Ministerial requests.
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Art. 34 D. Lgs. 152/2006 e s.s.m.m.i.i.
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Ibid., Art. 1 p. 4.
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Following the example of the River Contracts, also extended to other landscape elements, the Italian Consolidated Act on the Environment defines these contracts: “voluntary instruments of strategic and negotiated planning which pursue the protection, correct management of water resources and the enhancement of river areas together with the protection from hydraulic risk, contributing to the local development of these areas” (Artt. 68 bis e 205 D. Lgs. 152/2006 e s.s.m.m.i.i.).
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An example is the Metropolitan Building Regulations (REM) of the Metropolitan City of Milan: in addition to the provisions on building matters, it proposes methods of involvement and participation of the inhabitants in the identification and management of metropolitan common goods through a specific regulation (art. 22), provisions for urban quality (title 3) in terms of protection from noise pollution, reduction of polluting or climate-altering emissions, etc., regulations for using open public spaces and protecting green spaces and the environment (titles 4 and 5) with a prominent role for ecological connections.
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The 9 thematic in-depth areas are identified to focus on future territorial and urban transformations: sustainable soil use; quality of public space and services; sustainable mobility; circular economy; urban metabolism and energy transition; green spaces and biodiversity; equity and social cohesion; adaptation to climate change; organizational process innovations.
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The meetings took place from October 2021 to March 2022 in presence and remotely, in relation to the provisions on the pandemic emergency.
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Banxia Decision Explorer Software Decision Explorer (1990), 3.3.0 academic v., Banxia Software ltd., Kendal, UK (web site: < http://www.banxia.com >).
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The technique of cognitive maps is based on G. Kelly’s “Personal Construct Theory” which maintains that subjects see the world through a clear model formed by “constructs”, and the personal construction system constitutes people’s “construct space”.
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Congiu, T., Mereu, P., Plaisant, A. (2024). The Role of the Agendas for Sustainable Development in Designing the Metropolitan Sustainable Infrastructure. The Case of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari. In: Marucci, A., Zullo, F., Fiorini, L., Saganeiti, L. (eds) Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning. INPUT 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54096-7_13
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