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Publication Date: February 25, 2022
DOI:10.14738/aivp.101.11419. Verardi, F. (2022). The Sustainable Development of a Large Area. A Case Study: Kratos 2020. European Journal of Applied Sciences,
10(1). 120-125.
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The Sustainable Development of a Large Area. A Case Study:
Kratos 2020
Ferdinando Verardi
Full Professor in Urban Planning and Technique, Pegaso Telematic University
ABSTRACT
Applied experience of democratic participation during a multi-agent integrated
planning, organized from the bottom up in a territorial mosaic of Vast Area. The
debate was feed through the weaker and local actors of governance (understood as
"conversation", landscape), feeding awareness, and improve of endogenous
processes of sustainable development. The Strategic Plan as a conscious mode to
dilate time, and not like a final goal, a spontaneous harmonious link between
hierarchies of the territorial attraction centers. A polycentrism of continuity and
proximity to the creation of a territorial identity that leans on the environmental
and cultural strategy to is determine. A real experience inspired by non- deterministic theoretical scientific approaches (and subordinated to the result);
but it based on democratic ideals, while respecting the role of the institutions,
ensuring a high value to the cardinal principle of consultation between the
government bodies at various levels and encouraging their participation in the
territory in a planned and orderly manner in respect of all local actors. The
experience is certainly interesting for today's and future operators who will
contribute to enhancing the sustainable development of the area, finding utopian
guide and inspiration for democratization processes, with the hope that it can
become a concrete best practice for developing good democracy and the
determination of a coordinated and strategic planning of territories within the
European Economic Space.
Keywords: Strategic planning, Democratic participation, Multi-agent planning.
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
The main objective of the strategic plan is to build in a shared way the future of the "Valle del
Crati", which encompasses the territory of Kratos. To this end, the strategic planning method is
aimed at facilitating the understanding, dialogue and research of solutions through the
continuous interaction among the development actors, favoring and facilitating the creation of
structured participatory practices-seminars, work tables, projects-in land management. The
Strategic Plan is a long-term program, born for the renewal of the old industrial cities, through
the analysis of problems, dynamics, tensions and opportunities in the area, identified,
monitored and developed, in order to build global solutions and complete. It is useful to
reiterate that strategic planning is an organizational process necessary to define a strategy or
the direction to take in order to make decisions on the allocation of resources. In this direction
lies the great opportunity offered for this area by the work presented here. Thinking about the
"Valley of the Crati" through Kratos means elaborating shared "visions" (in the sense of shared
vision of Lefebvrist social space), thinking, structuring and managing services not in reference
to the single city, but able to go beyond the boundaries of the municipal boundaries, producing
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economies of scale capable of helping to contrast the crisis (from an economic, social,
environmental and institutional point of view), making the territories more efficient and able
to offer greater opportunities for development and wellbeing for those who live there. In fact,
several studies show that in Europe and in the world, it is precisely the territorial systems (of a
large area like Kratos), and no longer the single cities or metropolitan area, as happened in the
past, to compete and generate development projected over time. The strategic plan is one of the
most important innovations concerning the urban and territorial rules, is now one of main
approach to challenges for the planning and development of all those territories that focus on
enhancing their resources and their own peculiarities. In Europe PS emerged in the 1990s, and
the tendence is orienting in the Reticular Structure or global model, like in Turin and Barcelona
(it is not the representation of the city that determines the explication of the process, but the
network)[1].
Fig. 1. Brand mark of KRATOS
KRATOS 2020 IS A DISCOURSE BETWEEN ACTORS
In Kratos experience the planning work coordinated by the various actors of governance whit
a dialogic approach at the different levels of administration, whit ability to be self- determination within a long process of comparison for the construction about a preventive
work (not for necessity). It is a widespread area in adjacent to urban core of Cosenza (areas
with anthropic intensity that orbits around a well-defined identity system and especially
recognized to exogenous operators in the system). The Vast Area Kratos is in adjacent (to the
Urban Area of Cosenza) a political system and managerial relations with a greater formal and
substantial structure in relation to the area in question (Kratos), and compared to
superordinate governance. Identification that acquired the Urban Area of Cosenza (“Urban
Area”) in the hierarchy of "attracting centers" finds its natural territorial expression in the Valle
del Crati, rediscovering spontaneously the potential needed to rebalance with respect to the
rest of the relational systems on a provincial and regional scale. The local institutional relations
system of PS Kratos is not a competition whit other political configuration of the Urban Area,
non-induced but spontaneous processes from below, and greater contractual effectiveness with
regard to higher-level of governance. In the practice of european PS the analisis of competitors
between city is important, but in Kratos there isen't city and competivity, but there is
convergence in a territory. Kratos develops organically as a territorial device capable of being
identified globally (natural territorial invariant). With greater clarity because it is free from the
human relationships of the local border power. The polycentrism of the Urban Area is
reinforced by the natural conceptual projection along the Crati river, finding energy to be able
to relate to the European economic space, maintaining a natural role in the Mediterranean
space and therefore becoming more attractive and competitive the whole area "Urban Area of
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Cosenza - Crati Valley" (all areas guarantees the existence of the other), in the general
framework of the hierarchies of the global attractions. In Turin there is network of relations on
the global framework, in Kratos the area of existence is related at the national framework, whit
a connotation of the infrastructural picture balanced to the diagram of the
centralities/economic resources (approach of London PS). The plasticity of the natural
ecological corridor along the is expanding the time compared to the constraints of the central
power, and is most appealing to "non-economic speculation", but to human relations, viability
and substantial sustainability beyond mesh of the economy constrictive. The territorial gadget
"Kratos", therefore becomes a process that has produced the shared idea of a Strategic Plan, a
functional, permeable, and implementable tool for planning according to good democratic
practices, through an ever-open instrument of consultation. Through this systemic of land
management, not a clear mission but sequence of Cooperative-Action matured afther process
of analisis, it is was easier to identify the different planning activities by putting them into
system,with a greater understanding of the different punctual works within the PS, and
therefore able to attract funding and further projections for a sustainable tourism development.
The spontaneous experience of the Kratos Strategic Plan becomes a substantial link for
transnational development scenarios, an example of self-government that can self-perpetuate,
demonstrating its capacity to manage its territory. A search of rebalancing beyond the
"phenomenon of attraction" like Bilbao or Barcelona goal reached by the Olympics, Kratos is
awareness of its local potential and capacity to work in the following phases of design,
identifying regulatory, financial instruments, but also the most appropriate
technical/administrative forms to define the next design and execution phases, in order to
clarify the best performance form of exogenous technical operators the government system,
and to ensure proper administrative control over the whole process. In this scenery, it becomes
easier to implement the intervention of other stakeholders in the territory, in order to ensure
comparison and participation in government decisions, protecting local actors as active,
solidarity, and promoting synergies and competitive contexts among stakeholders exogenous,
as has already been the case for the most interesting Strategic Plans in Europe with the open to
global cultural debate.
Vision
The Strategic Plan can become a means for best practice, and an interpreter of a possible path
of sustainable development of cities spread in the "Urban Area". A Territorial Area gadget
capable of overturning the concept of "city to the landscape", placing the protagonist role in the
territory as compared to densely anthropized areas. Kratos communicates itself with a
journalistic[2] but not a publicistic approach (Roger Brunet 2003) with a lever in the
ethical/ecological revolution, the PS is simple, permeable instrument that easily fits in the
development scenarios and national coordination of metropolitan cities. Following modern
regeneration of the territory, with the care of Security and Accessibility to the urban system, in
a polycentric framework of densely anthropic sites. Intermodality care in keeping with the
authenticity of local values, but also sociality and landscape viable, with a general framework
of governance, capable to analyze the processes and interpreting proper administrative control,
in the space of actors of Democracy. The "Open Tool Kratos" is so spontaneous contribution of
local actors for the harmonious development of places, cultural heritage is effective because
dialectical and democratic debate in a scientific framework with deterministic approach. A
sensible instrument, permeated by human and social values, so as to increase the opportunities
of solidarity and equality, ensuring that the instrument remains a means and not an objective,
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inclusive and in the hands of the Men. Among the new missions of the strategic plan, the
missions are pursued to be able to combine the strongly cultural significance of the landscape
with its strongly "strategic" re-consideration (consistently with the contents emerging from the
European Landscape Convention fully implemented by the regional urban planning law 19/02
of “Regione Calabria” and reported in the Regional Territorial Framework), through which
landscape and territory become an indispensable resource for the creation of employment
opportunities, development and social welfare. Following the "discourse", understood as the
still open landscape, so far undertaken by PS Kratos.
TALE (DISCOURSE) OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN WITH IMAGES
Fig. 2. A concrete bottom-up experience with a multi-agent integrated planning able to ensure
endogenous coordination and development for the use of financial resources, as well as being a
good practice of addressing the planning and usability of local resources for even exogenous
players to the system. A planning of work among local actors in the area concerned, with a clear
vision of the territorial framework of territorial management by the superordinate
governance, guaranteed the strategic decision-making process an operational coordination
that facilitated horizontal and vertical consultation by the local public bodies and actors
involved.
Fig. 3. With a clear Large Area framework by local administrators, the spontaneous process of
planning It's guaranteed, in a consciousness sustainability key and with an endogenous
development path, rebuilding a territorial identity capable of developing its own development
idea. The actors of the area find out clearly the "scenic space" in which "to play", in respect of
their institutional role, proceed to a project of territorial planning, intended to discourse
(landscape) in which to create their own conceptual space in respect of the superordinate
organs
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Fig. 4. Working on the weaknesses of the integrated system, it was possible to set up a work
that involves the assessment, control and environmental management authorities at the
various stages of the decision-making process
Fig. 5. A timely and coordinated design between the different "dots" of the territorial mosaic
(eleven communities), guaranteed the technical and administrative sustainability of the overall
proposal of the Kratos Strategic Plan, an integrated design that is perfectly integrated in the
general framework of territorial infrastructures, and ensures the systematic nature of local
works within a framework of overall territorial sustainability of public works proposed within
the PS. An operational transparency of the administrative machine, which best proposes the
whole territory in a national strategic framework. With this work, it becomes easier to
intercept new finances for the development of planning at an over-municipal level, and in a
Vast Area framework by encouraging permeability to the system for development that is free
from the administrative boundary, but at the same time in harmony with it.The created
administrative system becomes a "gadget" that qualifies the territory, making it attractive for
private investment, because it is retrained and well coordinated from a functional point of
view. The quality in terms
Of overall sustainability of the strategic projects set up, guarantees the investor’s security
because it locates an overview of the local PA, and has a capacity to control and manage decision
making processes when it comes to becoming.
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Fig. 6. The clear knowledge of local administrators of its territory, has allowed us to play the
role which is appropriate within the vast area where the Strategic Plan, identifying the
strategic interventions needed to develop the Route of Identification some "Urban Area"
toward "Valle del Crati", entering into a logic of overall competitiveness of the two systemized
areas in the provincial and regional context
References
[1]. KRATOS is not a compact city (like Barcelona), but a compact management of resources (preventive approach),
avoiding high environmental costs that are objected in the mature scientific debate about PS (Bertuglia, Stanghellini,
and Staricco, 2003). KRATOS is an early response to the phenomenon of De-urbanization (with phenomena of
hourglass social structure) in relation to single city projections in the urban area of Cosenza. A way of solution for
homogeneous redistribution of regular work, and trying to avoid the phenomenon of "haves not" (impossibility in
having systems of communication in contemporary cities). Kratos can increase a gentrification (balanced)
phenomenon in the historical centers depopulated orbiting the river Crati, and creation of valuable economic
activities in the tertiary sector (very high cultural quality). Phenomenon driven by the growth of innovation in
transport and communication (Detragiache 1995, 1998). Kratos does not debate on the urban environment but on
the territory, as it declaims in the mature scientific debate of the PS (Tomazinis 1985, Bertuglia, Bianchi and Mela
1998, Bertuglia and Ceretto Castigliano 2000), using the most correct supralocal scale (Peano, Spaziante and Ciaffi
2002). Kratos intersects urban factors and planning tools (Bertuglia 2002, Champion 2002, Davico and others 2002,
Guerois and Pumain 2002, Haag 2002, Peano, Spaziante and Ciaffi 2002). The PS Kratos is analogous to the PS 'Area
Nord of Milan and Piacenza (48 municipalities of the province involved) for reticular structuring between
institutions (www.asnm / www / futuro / index.HTML /. Kratos' approach is similar to the strategic plan of Turin
(Torino Internazionale), but don’t have a financial speculative approach, because it seeks its own "sincere" approach
to the principles of sustainability (Cavallaro 2000).
[2]. Partecipate process in comunication (Pulsifier e Taylor 2005, Gibelli 1996, Ames 1998, Pumain, Saunders, Saint- Julien 1989, Pareglio 2000), and ability to self-criticism (Bobbio L. 1994) - Like PS of London 2008 in map of net for
the green spaces london.gov.uk/thelondonplan; PS of Lione map educational and ecological urban area
millenarie3.com; banner in Barcellona.bcn2000.es; brand map in PS of Rimini comune.rimini.it.