Stefano Stanghellini, URBIT President
Urbanpromo reflects on the processes of redevelopment of parts of cities that are degraded or that lack an identity, which can be activated through a significant investment in sports equipment. Investments that are based on the ethical and social values of sport, and provide communities and sports organisations with equipment that is useful for educational purposes, create opportunities for interaction and socialisation that benefit people of different ages and interests.
In Assisi, the expansion of the FPI National Boxing Centre in the former Montedison complex (with pavilions designed by Morandi and Nervi) is the starting point…
The urban regeneration project of the urban center of Calenzano is part of the proposal called “Nuove Ca.Se.” that the Tuscany Region, as an entity aggregating intervention strategies coordinated with the municipalities of Calenzano and Sesto Fiorentino, presented on the PINQUA call in March 2021 and was admitted to the national funding.
The regeneration begins with the objective of defining a new urban centrality, as a place in which to achieve integration between housing, social, cultural and economic functions, through a new architectural quality starting from public buildings. These regenerative actions are easily feasible due to the presence, within the…
The study area is located on the southeastern border of the town of Santa Maria degli Angeli, not far from the urban center and well connected to the main territorial infrastructures for mobility. The current urban structure, fragmented and unfinished, and its poor urban integration, determine the marginality. A part of it has been center of a chemical pole, whose memory is evidenced from two iconic buildings with a paraboloid section, attributed to Riccardo Morandi and Pierluigi Nervi, today of public ownership and that already hosts the Lyrick Theater, a bowling alley, a covered swimming pool, the Federal Technical…