The planning and financing of public works and services
This volume brings the role of planning to the center of the debate and action of public administration. There cannot be evolution in a society without careful planning activity that embraces every sector of public life. The book aims to trace a virtuous path, outlining the phases, application sectors and key players of this process. One of the essential steps is the close interconnection between programming and design. Planning, understood as a representation of future reality, is not a consequence, but the essential starting point for any well-structured programming activity. A clear method emerges: first the objectives of public interest are defined, then the resources to achieve them are sought, overcoming the inverted logic that adapts the ends to the available means. From this perspective, the world of public finance is explored, highlighting the legislator’s efforts to broaden its horizons, as demonstrated by the openness to investment funds. The public-private partnership is analyzed as an organizational model of advanced programming and financing. Through the involvement of private individuals, both in terms of technical-professional skills and capital, the public administration can find new ways to achieve the interests of the community. Concrete examples, such as the availability contract and the EPC (Energy Performance Contract), illustrate how collaboration can translate into the creation of infrastructures and urban and building regeneration interventions also financed by energy saving. Paolo Pettinelli Lawyer, in 2005 he founded the Pettinelli Law Firm and developed his activity in the sector of finance and public contracts which come together in public and private partnerships, focusing in the sector of large infrastructures and essential public services, as well as in the sector of urban regeneration. A well-known professor at the Polytechnic of Milan, he is the holder of the university course on the planning and financing of public works and services. He has also worked as a public manager as president of one of the first Italian local public transport companies and as extraordinary commissioner of companies in crisis. He is a member of the European Commission’s task force for the formulation of the SGI – Sustainability Growth Innovation.
