Subject : economic development
Entitled : Torino Internazionale- strategic plan for city promotion
Country : Italy
City : Turin
Key figures :
- Surface : 130 km²
- Population : 1 million d’habitants
- Unemployment rate : 7 %
Project description :
The strategic plan Torino Internazionale is one of the key instruments the city of Turin has chosen to identify the actions it has to conduct as to reinforce it’s economic growth in the context of the 21st century, until 2011, a significant date for the city because of it’s link with the 150th anniversary of Italian unity.
Strategic outlines : To integrate the metropolitan area into the international system, construct metropolitan government, to develop professional training and research as a strategic expedient, to promote the private sector and employment, improve urban quality...
Leading actions :
The development of the University of Turin and the development of the Polytechnic University with at it’s heart the international professional training centre for research and business, as to transform Turin into one of the main attractions for young people from Europe and the world.
Policy for the consolidation of different technological sectors of industry (automobile- automation- design, robotics, machines, tools, aeronautics, NIT...
- Incubator for new enterprises supporting new models
- Promotion of Turin as the major object of urban tourism
- Periphery Project’s and the development of new centres
- Realisation of the Agenda 21
- New institutional balances for the metropolitan area
- Renewal of the rails network and reinforcement of the airport capacities, capable to assure all European connections in less than two hours
Realisation date : 2000
Financing : local government, regional and private partners
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