Municipalities co-operating to face metropolitan challenges: a proposal for the Area Vasta Veronese (Italy)

This paper is aimed at discussing the result of a change of attitude of municipalities belonging to the metropolitan area of Verona (Italy), which, in a spirit of voluntariness and grasping opportunities, set up a body focused on the governance of the “Area Vasta”. Following this process as consultants, we had the opportunity to appreciate the potential of this territorial arrangement, in which the variable geometry of actions and projects takes place according to contingent objectives and long-term strategies.