InvestiRE Sgr has played a leading role over the last ten years on the national scene – through the management of ethical real estate funds dedicated to social housing participated by the Fondo Investimenti per l’Abitare (Investment Fund for Housing) managed by CDP Immobiliare SGR – in the creation of social value through urban regeneration.
Collaboration with local public and private stakeholders, including the consolidated partnership with the world of foundations, has enabled InvestiRE to specialize in the redevelopment of disused and degraded assets in city centres, contributing to not only urban but also social regeneration with the activation of…
Territorial regeneration for the metropolitan area of Bologna
There are three proposals submitted by the metropolitan city of Bologna to the National Innovative Program for the Quality of Living (PINQUA) and admitted to funding for about € 45 million, developed on the territory of three Unions of Municipalities for a total of 27 interventions, between the flatlands and the Apennines. The proposals are linked by a unitary metropolitan strategy built around a broad definition of the concepts of housing and regeneration that enhances the territorial and metropolitan dimension, allowing to decline a concept of ‘periphery’ not limited to large urban areas, but which, on the contrary, includes…
Inhabiting the regeneration. Project MAS (Mosaic Solidarity Housing)
Regeneration, Sustainability and Inclusion. These are the essential points that summarize the lines of intervention of the public social housing project of the City of Parma MAS (Mosaic Housing Solidarity) admitted to funding within the framework of the ministerial competition PINQuA – Integrated Program for the Quality of Living, included in the PNRR. The project adopts a differentiated design, developed by the design company Policreo Srl and implemented through various public entities (Parma Infrastrutture Spa, A.S.P. Ad Personam and ACER Parma), in which urban regeneration and housing quality play a key role, as well as the conversion of buildings…
Regeneration of the North urban quadrant – Railway gate of the city of IMOLA
The train station “PORTA DELLA CITTA” (CITY GATE), is a fundamental node in the regeneration program of the abandoned industrial areas and of the freight yard that has lost its function. The development of intermodality train+bike+TPL improves accessibility to the city center and the potential attractiveness of the areas located along the railway line.
This is the starting point for the regeneration project of the North Railway urban quadrant with a new centrality in the strategic planning system of the City of Imola, which identifies the abandoned industrial areas along the railway as a source of areas to be reconverted…
Liguria Social Housing Fund: Boero project. The neighborhood that regenerates
The Boero project is an initiative to regenerate an industrial area that was once the site of the Boero paint factory of the same name, in the center of the Molassana neighborhood.
The intervention consisted in the realization of private services under special agreements, among which a nursery school, and about 170 apartments, offered, through a private call for applications, for rent with or without redemption and on sale, both free and under special agreements, divided between two tower buildings and two buildings in line organized around green areas.
The project was designed with the aim of revitalizing an abandoned area…
STRATEGIC URBAN REGENERATION – REBIRTH OF THE WEST COAST DI GIOVINAZZO
Giovinazzo is a little town in N-W of the metropolitan city of Bari with a population of about 20.000 inhabitants. It is located 20 km from Bari and its coastline stretches for 10.61 km.
The Municipal Administration of Giovinazzo continues in the urban regeneration policy undertaken as a methodology to redevelop the territory of Giovinazzo and give a complete sense to the future urbanism of the city, especially as a set of measures to rebuild the lives of citizens. The municipal administration, in the past years, had developed the Urban Regeneration Programming Document that the VICHIM srl company used to…
NEW URBAN CENTER-PROPOSAL OF URBAN REGENERATION – NATIONAL INNOVATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE QUALITY OF LIVING (PINQUA)
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…
EX MONTEDISON AREA IN ASSISI, SANTA MARIA DEGLI ANGELI – MASTERPLAN
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…
THE NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS IN URBAN REGENERATION
Simona Collarini, Director of Urban Planning Head Office, Municipality of Milan
For a long time it was thought that innovation, economic growth and increased employment could not be pursued while also managing to face the environmental challenges of our time. Yet it is essential to use natural resources in a sustainable way in the long term and the interest, including the European Union, for Nature Based Solutions (NBS) goes in this direction.
The European Commission defines NBS as “Nature-inspired and nature-supported, cost-effective solutions that simultaneously provide environmental, social, and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring increasingly diverse nature,…