RENEWABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES

Ennio Nonni, INU – URBIT

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) were introduced by Ministerial Decree 162/2019, when there was still no risk of going into crisis due to energy shortages, and prohibitive purchase costs and represent a means of stimulating groups of people to equip themselves with shared facilities for the production and self-consumption of energy from renewable sources.
A simple idea that prefigures the development of zero-kilometre energy and that, through the transposition of the European RED 11 Directive and PNRR funding, can significantly affect the achievement of energy autonomy; a local project dimension, in neighbourhoods but not only,…

PURCHASE, COLLECTION AND REDISTRIBUTION OF FOOD

Matelda Reho e Giulia Lucertini, Università Iuav di Venezia

The issue of ‘food’ and, more specifically, its consumption and waste have gained increasing attention in recent years, both because of the pandemic and the difficulties it has highlighted, and in relation to a growth in sensitivity, which in some cities has supported the definition of real policies, and in many other centres has nonetheless given life and support to practices with considerable potential.

We are now in a more mature phase of the discussion and planning on food and related supply chains and, starting from the most successful experiences,…

AFTER THIRTY YEARS. ACQUISITION OF MEANING OF METROPOLITAN CITIES

Vittoria Crisostomi, INU – URBIT

Through the multiple-entry method and a transversal scaffolding, designed to counteract aspects that hinder development, the NRP has highlighted two essential issues of urban planning:

The identification of specific themes and territories, that were recalled within diverse calls for grants with respect to different territorial configurations (as declining hamlets, centers with at least 15000 inhabitants, cities), different ways of living (social housing of PinQua, social regeneration, quality of life and settlements), as well as different references to economic functions (tourism, services, and infrastructure, agriculture, sports).The practice of allocating calls precisely to those institutions that…