International audienceThe Italian capital offers an interesting location in which to analyse the action of local politics attempting to control both transport and urban development ; indeed, the “Eternal City” is known for its low quality public transport system, weak urban planning and for its political and cultural promotion of the use of the car as a main means transport. At the end a decade in which considerable amounts have been spent trying to cure “the genetic disease of a city conceived without transport plan”, the validation, in March 2006, of a new regulation plan for the city – a conclusion of an intense conceptual renewal and of a rather new administrative and institutional cooperation – confirmed that the availability of public...