Heritage and culture role in the Rome metropolitan plan

Heritage and culture are considered as fundamental lever for local and regional development in the Rome’s metropolitan plan. The Plan interprets nature, heritage and culture as key value that characterize the metropolitan identities. Settlement’s transformations in the plan arise from the settlement’s morphology and historical territory’s form and encourage a double polycentrism (Rome and 120 small municipalities). One of the general aim of the plan is to reorganize present settlement emphasizing existing morphological pattern by using principles of the compact city. The paper would like to point out the importance of some compact city’s arguments for the project of the dispersal contemporary city.