The service system and new urban welfare needs

The aim of the action is to transpose into the municipal planning instruments elements and themes of reflection developed in different contexts and in particular to test the possibility that they may constitute an explicit reference for the definition of the strategies of the Services Plan, one of the three instruments of which the Piano di Governo del Territorio (Territorial Government Plan) is composed, as provided for by the Lombardy Region regulations.

The objective is the improvement of relations between public administration and citizens; a fundamental necessity to make the city’s development more balanced and enhance the role of public…

Reggio Emilia City Barrier-Free

Reggio Emilia City Without Barriers’ (RECSB) has been running since 2015. The project pursues the political mandate to act a transversal and inclusive cultural horizon, with the aim of creating a city that is attentive to the rights of the most fragile people, that eliminates the causes of marginalisation and discrimination, and that is hospitable and beautiful. The main objective is to approach integrated processes of sectoral policies with the direct involvement of citizenship.
The areas of intervention relate to institutional, study and research actions for: the welcoming and accessible city; barrier-free culture, art and fragility; community awareness of the…

Urban restoration of Via Grande

The main motivations inherent in adhering to the experimentation are to promote and experiment the ethical-design approach of urban accessibility at the different project scales (from urban planning, to urban design, to the design of individual public spaces) in order to progressively affirm the culture of urban inclusiveness both within the municipal structure (in its political and technical components), and in the city community that will be involved, with diversified modalities of active listening/participation, in the different project paths. The promotion of urban accessibility is linked to the integrated policies concerning the contextual elaboration of the Operational Plan, the…

PEBA for living

The elaboration of the PEBA favours the improvement and greater quality of urban planning, intervention programming and design solutions adopted to make the city accessible.

Environmental accessibility is the requirement for the launch of inclusive strategies to inhabit a city that is fair and accessible to all. The intervention provides basic elements to support the strategic choices of the PEBA aimed at guaranteeing, along some of the main routes, the accessibility of routes to reach essential services, places and public buildings of greater attractiveness for all citizens.

The plan is interdisciplinary, participatory, dynamic, efficient and organic and aims at the regeneration…

Prato Carbon Neutral

The Municipality of Prato has been  selected by the European Commission among the 100 European cities that will participate in the mission “100 smart and climate-neutral cities by 2030”, the so-called “Cities Mission”.

In the two-year period 2022-23, the mission will be able to count on approximately 360 million euros of funding from the Horizon Europe program, to launch innovation paths to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 to launch innovation paths to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 to launch synergistic paths based on innovation with the aim of achieving climate neutrality and thanks to which different sectors will be able…

Green connections

The project, financed by the Umbria RDP 2014-2020, has implemented integrated landscape qualification interventions that together constitute the area project, represented in the master plan, for the redevelopment of the peri-urban and urban landscape of San Giustino. The project has allowed the reconstitution of landscape and ecological fruitive unity between the areas involved in the interventions and called ‘critical landscapes’.

The project proposes a series of connections, physical, material and immaterial, that will allow the peri-urban landscape to be enjoyed and will bring greater opportunities for sociality and wellbeing for the local community, as well as bringing landscape quality to…

Metropolitan Network for Knowledge: Greater Bologna

The Metropolitan City of Bologna has selected, among the projects put forward by the Municipalities and Unions of Municipalities, four proposals, characterised by a broad metropolitan relevance and aimed at achieving the strategic objectives outlined in the programming and planning tools that the Città Metropolitana has adopted in recent years, namely: the ecological transition and the fight against climate change; the reduction of inequalities and fragilities; and the enhancement and development of the knowledge and research system.

In order to take full advantage of the great opportunity offered by the PNRR resources and the European, national, regional and local development…

DROPCITY – ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN CENTRE IN MILAN

Nhood, an international real estate services and consultancy company dedicated to urban regeneration, is one of the leading players in urban regeneration, understood as a combination of public interest and sustainable private investment aimed at creating new value on mixed-use assets.

Dropcity – Centro di Architettura e Design is an initiative by architect Andrea Caputo developed thanks to Grandi Stazioni Retail with Nhood as investor, developer and co-manager of 10,000 square metres on 28 tunnels along via Sammartini, in the Central Station area in Milan. By 2024, Dropcity will provide young architects and designers looking for suitable spaces for their…

THE REGENERATION OF THE ECONOMIC TISSUES OF PROXIMITY

Paolo Testa, Confcommercio-Imprese per l’Italia, Urban Planning and Urban Regeneration sector


Companies in the tertiary market sector are known to contribute to the vitality of Italian cities, both in large centres and small towns, enhancing their identities and making them centres of value production. Beyond this simple observation, it appears increasingly necessary to investigate the transformation processes underway in urban systems in order to understand which new development models can allow for the harmonious growth of cities and their widespread fabric of economic activities.

The conference organised by Confcommercio-Imprese per l’Italia proposes a reflection on the importance of data as…

URBANISTICA AWARD

The URBANISTICA Award, now in its fourteenth edition, is awarded to the projects exhibited in the 2020 and 2021 editions of Urbanpromo; the projects awarded in the 2022 edition were chosen from those exhibited in the multimedia gallery and in the exhibition held at the MEET – Digital Culture Center through the online vote expressed by users registered on the Urbanpromo website. From the 2016 edition, the projects are assessed with reference to the following contents, identified by the Director of the magazine to highlight the most important themes of contemporary…