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It has been clear for at least 20 years in Italy that policy making questions cannot be avoided, not only in practice but also in the planning debate. These references have, for a long time, been marginal in the more influential disciplinary traditions, but conditions have changed and even the planners who continue to favour planning method must face urban and regional policy questions. The approach proposed by Ludovico Quaroni in the 1960s no longer appears convincing for it created a clear-cut division between the substantive topics according to spatial scale. Responsibility for large-scale strategies for estimating, allocating and programming the main economic and social functions was entrusted to regional-scale planning and policies.
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Palermo, P.C., Ponzini, D. (2010). The Challenges for Policy Making. In: Spatial Planning and Urban Development. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8870-3_18
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