Urbanistica, moschee e altri luoghi di culto : riflessioni a partire da una recente legge della regione Lombardia

Recent innovations of planning regulation about worship places in Lombardia region offer an interesting case to deal with a complex issue: through planning norms, the construction of worship places (mosques in particular) has now become extremely difficult. Analyzing such norms, the paper argues that, in order to avoid discrimination of religious minorities and violation of constitutional rights, it is necessary to rethink the planning system by introducing more general and abstract norms to regulate only negative externalities of urban functions and not functions themselves.