THE REGENERATION OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Vittorio Salmoni, Carolina Giaimo, INU – URBIT

Urban regeneration is the means for implementing the evolution of a city that no longer expands but transforms itself within its own limits. The improvement of the quality of life in cities is determined by several conditions among which land consumption limitation, design innovation, raising environmental quality, and the new role of public spaces.

Awareness regarding environmental, energy, and climate criticisms has increased in local communities. This increased consciousness has contributed to redefine the idea of urban quality as composed of environmental, settlement, social, and accessibility aspects that is achieved with a comprehensive strategy formed…

THE CULTURAL DRIVER OF URBAN REGENERATION. PNRR AND CULTURE FROM VILLAGES TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Edited by Vittorio Salmoni, INU – URBIT

In a fragmented and conflicting urban scenario it is crucial to plan for regeneration keeping design hallmark firmly in place by avoiding references to past models that consists of exclusively normative processes, lowered from above or facilitating substitutes or even subordinated to the composition of political agendas.

Regeneration is the tool for operating in the contemporary city, which no longer expands but transforms itself within its established limits.
Form, characteristics, and social and economic structure of places are the sphere of experimentation for regeneration models driven by different drivers. Among them, culture, especially in…