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The book collects the contributes of the speakers and the participants at the Conference "Urban containment. The Italian approach" (Brescia, 8th May 2008). At the Conference, the Italian data and figures in urban growth have been illustrated to assess the National and regional approaches to urban containment. Three main sessions dealt with the interactions between urban dynamics and land use; urban growth and environmental concerns; urban development and local financing (namely land property taxation and transferable development rights). Every session with invited Italian experts had a foreign discussant, with the aim of distinguish between approaches that are context dependent and approaches with a more universal character. The book contains the proceedings of the conference and some other reflections stimulated by it. Barbara Badiani, born in Brescia, Italy, in 1970. graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Brescia. She is researcher of Town and regional planning at the University of Brescia, Faculty of Engineering, since 2005. Her main research fields are: urban analysis and urban planning, landscape analysis and environmental and landscape assessment. She teaches Regional systems analysis at the University of Brescia (I) and at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Parma (I). Maurizio Tira, born in Cremona, Italy, in 1961, graduated in Civil Engineering for Environment and Planning at the Polytechnic in Milan. He is Full Professor of Town and regional planning at the University of Brescia, Faculty of Engineering, since 2002 and President of the Study centre "Città amica". His main research fields are "accessibility and safety in urban environment", "urban and traffic planning" and "planning in hazardous areas". He is Chairman of the EU Action COST-TU0602 "Land management for urban dynamics". Invited expert of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) since 1999 and of the OECD working group on "Pedestrian safety, urban space and health", he is President of the Urban Study Centre of the Province of Brescia and member of the Board of the Italian Urban Study Centre. Author of more than 130 publications, he teaches Planning in hazardous areas and Environmental analysis and assessment in the University of Brescia (I) and Regional systems analysis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Parma (I).

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