THE DIGITAL CITY
With this workshop Urbanpromo intends to explore a fascinating approach to the study and design of the city. The exploration aims to verify the possibility of creating an annual event of analysis, proposal and dissemination of innovations that make use of artificial intelligence, as well as human intelligence. The occasion is created by a fortuitous meeting with the Cariplo Foundation’s MEET Digital Culture Center.
Cities are not just places to live. They are also powerful creative devices to activate the diverse present and explore the possible future if they allow a community life that builds fruitful relationships, generates fertile synapses,…
URBAN PLANNING PRIZE
The Urban Planning Prize, now in its fourteenth edition, is awarded to the projects exhibited in the previous edition of Urbanpromo. The projects awarded in the 2020 edition were chosen from those exhibited in the multimedia Gallery and in the exhibition held in Turin at the Nuvola Lavazza through the vote expressed by the visitors of Urbanpromo during the event.
From the 2016 edition, the projects are evaluated with reference to the following contents, identified by the magazine’s Director to highlight the most important issues of contemporary urban planning: new ways of living and producing; environmental, economic and social regeneration;…
IDEAS AND PROJECTS TO REDEVELOP PARTS OF THE CITY
Stefano Stanghellini, Presidente URBIT
The challenge of urban regeneration is faced on several fronts and with very diversified approaches. One of the main aspects is certainly that of the parts of the city which, having lost their original function for a while, are in a state of neglect. Another fundamental front is that of the parts of the city which, while retaining their original function, have a poor quality urban fabric, with obsolete buildings and an inadequate urban structure. The vastity of the areas and their other characteristics, the functions to be installed or resettled, the size of the investment to…