Located in the North-West of Italy, Torino (900.000 inhabitants) is the city of the automotive company FIAT. The city has recently experienced a deep process of urban transformation, which began with the XX Winter Olympic Games in 2006 and, before that, with the disposal of unused factories' several millions of square meters. For this reason, Torino is today an interesting case study. The paper particularly deals with a critical reading of the experience of the Urban Center Metropolitano Torino

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... (UCM), an association that was born in 2005 for accompanying the urban and regional planning and the renewal processes. UCM is an interesting experience from both a methodological and an operational point of view: doing its work with the various actors, the public and the private ones, UCM explores different uses of the architectural project, practicing its main skill that is to "draw a shape". It is for this reason that in the UCM's activities the project can take many different roles: it can be a tool of knowledge, of foreshadowing, of discussion.