In Italy there are no megalopolises, just medium-large cities.
The largest are Rome (around 2.8 million inhabitants) and Milan
(around 1.3 million inhabitants), and there are various levels of
land-use planning authorities and procedures to consider.
In Italy, different levels of government (20 regions, 103
provinces, over 8,000 municipalities) have land-use planning tasks
assigned to them:
- The state has the power to set
general rules.
- The regions legislate their own
regional laws in the frameworks of national law.
- The provinces have competence on some
aspects of territorial planning, mainly related to geological and
environmental aspects.
The Regional laws have introduced different names for the
municipal masterplans. Here there are some examples:
