General Town Plan, Municipality of Trieste

Between 2003 and 2006 Alberto Cecchetto became urban planning consultant of the Municipality of Trieste, and elaborates, together with the Technical Offices of the Municipality between urban planning tools, which together form an articulated but exhaustive regulatory apparatus:

• The plan of the urban center: it is essential to update first of all the normative apparatus and the urban planning choices of intervention on the building patrimony of the urban center, both of its oldest and medieval portion, and of the nineteenth-century expansions, which characterize the urban layout of the city of Trieste. The update involves in particular the City Mobility Plan, the enlargement of pedestrian spaces, the reuse of ground floors and the drafting of a new legislation capable of extending the use of housing to the attic. Some important “urban projects” are then elaborated, which examine and suggest solutions for the most potential urban portions, by virtue of their future reuse for the benefit of the whole community.
• The harbour plan: Trieste like many city ports, where the historical fabric is confused with the harbour structures of first foundation, must find a new balance between reuse of the more “Porto Vecchio” areas and the urban center that encircles them. Also because in Trieste, as in a few other cities, access to the urban center is conditioned by the presence of the “Porto Vecchio”, which, if properly integrated with the city, can bring incredible benefits to the entire urban structure. The Town development plan of the port, comes therefore, very rare case, introduced and agreed with the communal administration that of it assumes in some way the paternity.
• The Expo Plan 2008: a third important element of the proposed urban strategy concerns an “exceptional” event, which can be important to move energy and knowledge in the cities. It’s Trieste’s bid in 2004 to host Expo 2008. An Expo very different from those hitherto experienced, which provided for new urbanizations and the construction of temporary pavilions. It is expected to localize the event in the already built and unused area of the “Porto Vecchio”, Habsburg plant, creating the premises for its desirable and future inclusion (post expo) in the urban system of the entire city