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,…

TAKING CARE OF FRAGILITIES- SECOND SESSION

 Francesco Domenico Moccia, INU General secretary, Valter Fabietti, Università G. D’Annunzio, L. Di Ludovico


The National Institute of Urban Planning (INU) has always worked on issues related to environmental, economic and social fragility, making its own the challenges of development, equity, adaptation, innovation and prevention. In addition, the Institute, within the Study Day, the National Urban Planning Review and the Urbanpromo events, organizes every year sections dedicated to these issues to make known the results of the researches and in-depth analyzes elaborated by the members of the INU in collaboration with public research institutions and national and international universities.
During…

THE ACTIVE ROLE OF PROTECTED AREAS FOR THE RESTARTING OF THE COUNTRY

Angioletta Voghera, Politecnico di Torino


Protected natural areas are a strategic resource for health and well-being and for overcoming the fragility of the territory, and they can also be an occasion for the Italy to restart. The conference will discuss with Federparchi and the Italian nature protected areas how the paradigms of nature conservation and sustainable design of the territory are essentials, considering the changes that have occurred with the Covid-19 emergency. Tourism, as an integrated policy for conservation and development and enhancement of the landscape, is an opportunity for the revitalization of natural parks and protected areas and…

ECO-DISTRICTS IN ITALY AND EUROPE

Laura Fregolent, Iuav University of Venice; Laura Pogliani, Polytechnic University of Milan 


Eco-Districts are a 20-year experience in the design of sustainable urban settlements, characterized by a particular attention to energy, environmental and soft mobility aspects. Under the broad meaning of Eco-Districts we have different examples, in terms of size, objectives and sustainability issues in some European capitals (Paris, Amsterdam, London, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Stockholm) but also in smaller urban centres, such as Malmö, Freiburg, Hannover, Grenoble, Linz, occasionally developed as part of extraordinary urban events. In Italy, Bolzano, Trento and Faenza are best known cases. Trento and Faenza…