A city committed to recovering former industrial areas and transforming them into new services for the whole city .

Industry represents a rich legacy for Torino. A legacy made up of technical and commercial skills, entrepreneurial and financial resources, stimuli to innovation to be transferred to new business activities. But also a legacy made up of structures and buildings no longer used for production which are today seeking a new role in the city.
Torino is the location of one of the most important Italian rehabilitation projects of former industrial areas. Renzo Piano has transformed the Lingotto factory, once the most famous European car plant, into a multi-functional complex that brings under one roof a trade fair centre, a conference centre, a university faculty, a hotel, shops, offices and management centres. Along the "central backbone", the area of an old steel plant has been replaced by Europe's first environment technology park.
The Environment Park has been designed for sustainable development: laboratories, offices and service centres will be built with ecological materials, indoor pollution will be eliminated and renewable energy sources will be used.
The great railway repair yards will instead be restructured to make room for the doubling of the Torino Polytechnic - one of Italy's most prestigious technical and scientific institutions. Here, specific investment has been allocated to research and training in the field of information technology.
All of this is happening within the framework of clear rules and opportunities, integrating modernisation projects with the history and architecture of the past. In order to control this ongoing change, Torino adopted a new master development plan in the 1990s.