Description of the Interactive Tool
Strategies are needed in urban planning to protect and enhance the provision of public spaces, considering that municipalities have limited funds for acquiring new areas. The challenge is to devise feasible market-based planning tools. In Italy, the law (D.L. 13th May 2011, n. 70.) introduced a new landscape and urban planning tool to improve the city's public spaces by transferring properties and development rights. Landowners and developers will exchange a right to build on concentrated portions of the property with the obligation to transfer the remaining area zoned for public use to the Municipality. This process increases the overall provision of public spaces and related ecosystem services at reduced costs for the city.
The novelty of the strategy lies in the attempt to link the protection of farmlands and other open spaces with the planning of sustainable urban development.
The role-playing game is structured as follows. Firstly, every player has a goal to achieve inside their property represented by a 16x16-stud LEGO baseplate, red bricks of transferable building development rights, and grey brick of money. Then the game fixes some rules for the urban area, and every round, the players can try to reach their aims until they run out of red bricks. Finally, we discuss with the students the obtained results.

Points of Strength
In urban planning and development, there are many interests and stakeholders. In this role-playing game, students assume the roles of different landowners (farmers, builders, citizens) with varying aims for their properties. In this manner, they can reflect on the complexity of the interests in urban development. Furthermore, the games' rules allow them to find solutions that could satisfy all of them and public interest. This tool helps in understanding how to gain the flexibility to urban plans, helping them to adapt to the complexity of the Municipality and to their unpredictable transformations.