The lines of water

The lines of water as spaces for communication. The ancient ways of communication often followed streams of water and rivers to catch villages and fortifications, where the path of water became vertical instead of horizontal. From this assumption, and through the realization of communications systems, for pedestrian, bicycle or both, we can create a system ...

PROJECT CITY THROUGH RETAIL AND SERVICES

Confcommercio – Imprese per l’Italia is focused on sustaining and developing policies for the raise of cities and economies, based on processes of urban regeneration and economic revitalization, using the web to share cultural and economic resources, giving space to dynamic participations, and assuming the theme of sustainability and partnership as a priority. Confcommercio acted ...

CONFCOMMERCIO AND POST-DEGREE EDUCATION

In between all the policies of Confcommercio – Imprese per l’Italia, the role of sustaining new processes of post degree education has a particular relevant role, focusing on the theme of giving value to commerce, turism and services into the policies of transformation and governance of cities and territories. Those experiences are particularly important, in ...

The local street markets of Genova: tradition and innovation

The Municipality of Genova started time ago, with the Organisation of Cathegories, a reflexion about the management of the structures of the market, that from years are in need of extraordinary maintenance considering the necessities of: containing the limit of debts, but ensuring the extraordinary maintenance maintain for the markets the role of public service ...

GENOVA: THE AREA AGREEMENT OF PRÈ AND THE AREA AGREEMENT OF XX SEPTEMBER

Agreement for the Pré Area. It has been subscribed on the 17th of April 2015. The signatories are: Regione Liguria, Comune di Genova, Prefettura di Genova, Segretariato Regionale del MIBACT per la Liguria, Camera di Commercio di Genova, Confesercenti, ASCOM Confcommercio, CIV “Borgo di Prè” e la Società Consortile “Vivere Santa Brigida”. The Agreement gives ...

URBAN VISIONS

The social and physical conditions of the cities of Umbria Region are really different from the conditions of other areas of the Country, and in the same way the dimension and complexity of problems that the Region and the Municipalities faced in the passing of time are different. The present condition of Umbria cities, and ...

ROME CITY OF FILM

The Fondazione Cinema per Roma, that is the coordinator of Unesco Rome City of Film, is organizing the conference titled “The nomination Rome City of Film: presentation, ideas and thoughts” during the XIII edition of Urbanpromo. The conference is part of the events to support the nomination of Roma, which will take place in the ...

The linking bridge – A collaboration project between Italy-Switzerland in favour of the local development and the sustainable mobility.

The border location of Ponte Tresa (I-CH) is a strategic point of interest under a mobility point of view and it is important for the regional exchange between Italy and Switzerland. The functionality of the mobility and the viability along the Lugano-Varese axis is directly depending from the situation and the solutions adopted in this ...

ROVERETO: MANIFATTURA PROJECT

Progetto Manifattura – Green Innovation Factory is an initiative promoted by the autonomous Province of Trento to transform the historical Manifattura Tabacchi of Rovereto – inaugurated in 1864 – in a center for industrial innovation in the field of sustainable construction, renewable energy, technologies for the environment and management of the natural resources. The nine ...

URBAN ART RENAISSANCE

The foundations Aem and A2A, under the patronage of the Municipality of Milano, participated to the Urban Art Renaissance, one of the most important initiatives of Urban Art realised in Italy, inside the frame of the “Expo in Città” calendar. “Energy Box” #energybox2015, iniative by A2A and foundation Aem, created by Atomo Tinelli, employer of A2A ...