6. Proposals of Concrete Project Strategies: Planning the System of Open Spaces and Restructuring the Urban Territory

We need new tools since the various tools already available are no longer able to work with long-term goals and processes and alternative scenarios. The plans may not be general but selective, seeking to multiply the effects of a few strategically chosen interventions. The processes proposed are more circular than linear, and more globally strategic than definitive. We have already become accustomed to working on hypotheses that are in continuous revision, rather than on assumptions that remain unchanged.

Maybe we need a new approach that comprises interactive methodology, project management, verification, and adjustment to address problems specific to each situation and to offer solutions and progressive context.

In spatial planning, one may need to take lessons offered by successful urban projects and differentiate essential structural elements from other proposals that evolve and adapt in time and are subject to redefinition by taking a closer view. (Sabaté 2000, p. 96, translated from the original)