Medium-sized cities, intermediate scales and planning. Potential processes and missing tools in Brescia

espanolLa fase de transicion en curso, dirigida por procesos de globalizacion y crisis mundial, ha venido alentando la recentralizacion demografica y economica hacia las ciudades mas grandes e importantes. Esta tendencia urge a analizar la dinamica socioeconomica y espacial de las ciudades de tamano medio que se caracterizan historicamente por su cultura manufacturera y empresarial. Este es el caso de Brescia (uno de los nodos urbanos de la ciudad-region del norte de Italia), donde un programa estrategico (hasta ahora inexistente) podria fomentar la gestion de los retos urbanos transescalares, asi como el desarrollo de soluciones de gobernanza y planificacion multinivel. EnglishThe ongoing phase of transition, led by processes of globalization and world crisis, has been encouraging the demographic and economic re-centralization towards major and largest cities. This trend urges the analysis of socio-economic and spatial dynamics in medium-sized cities which are historically characterized by manufacturing and entrepreneurial culture. This is the case of Brescia (one of the urban hubs of the North Italy city-region), where a strategic agenda (up to now, missing) could foster the management of trans-scalar urban issues, as well as the development of multi-level governance and planning solutions