Herramientas urbanísticas utilizadas para contener la dispersión urbana: Estrategias de la planificación territorial bolo？esa

among the recent european territorial changes highlights the spread of population, production and services. in the 70 has started in bologna a process of urban sprawl that has led, thirty years later, to a marked dispersion. planning is presented as the means capable of responding to this problem. we therefore propose the study of regional plans that have been developed since 1970 to the present through the use of three instruments: the economic / legal, the the infrastructural and the morphology. the work done to the conclusion that the general regulator plan 1970 adopted a model of urban expansion that began the process of dispersion in the province, that the general regulator plan of 1985 despite having spent the expansion to the urban transformation failed to prevent further spread and that was with the provincial territorial coordination plan of 2004 that were generated mechanisms that allowed to start reducing it.