Idea Competitions: Contemporary Urban Planning in Urban Regions and the Concept of Trading Zones

摘要: This chapter presents some thinking about two recent European idea competitions. Both cases, which date to the first decade of twenty-first century, allow us reflect upon way in contemporary urban planning is experimenting new ways facing problems communication and coordination large regions, thus moving beyond limits boundaries statutory administrative traditional definition city. Reading these cases through lens trading zone approach seems reveal interesting elements for interpretation will be summarised fifth paragraph dedicated general conclusions. In fact, an attempt discuss probe Galison’s within field spatial planning, explores role that competitions play processes. The hypothesis that, given disputed nature a complex, multicultural, uncertain fragmented condition, can act today, implicitly or explicitly, as innovative devices face such those coordination, particular challenging contexts, like regions. A second complements this one: analysed places both production knowledge well public decision-making. sense, offers positive support our understanding complex function exchange (expert tacit) plays decision-making processes, today’s crisis legitimacy efficiency models action.