11–14 May 2000, hosted by the Provincia di Torino and held in the Torino Conference Centre and the Palazzo Cisterna. Theme – Quality of Metropolitan Regions in the new Millennium. The PolyMETREX project concept, comprising 7 broad inter-regional balancing zones, was established from a suggestion by our President Prof.ssa Mercedes Bresso.
- A Northern Parallel running from London and Paris to Berlin and including the Rhine-Ruhr area
- A Rhine corridor running south west from the Randstad to Zurich and München
- A Southern Parallel stretching from Lisbon through Barcelona, Marseille and Milano to Budapest
- An Elbe-Danube Corridor running south west from Berlin to Budapest
- A Northern Isles area covering the UK and Ireland
- The Baltic Palette covering the metropolitan areas of the Baltic sea
- The Archimed area covering the metropolitan areas of the southern Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Aegean seas.
