Gianni Biagi, Stefano Stanghellini, INU URBIT
Italian cities contain spaces—such as former military sites, railway yards and disused industrial sites—that have been abandoned or have become marginal in relation to urban centres and service hubs.
These are predominantly state-owned and public properties which have increasingly taken on a role as drivers of urban regeneration in recent years, generating new services, public spaces and opportunities for local communities.
A key role in initiating and promoting these important development strategies is played by the Italian State Property Agency (Agenzia del Demanio), a public economic entity which, through its City Plans for Public Assets (Piani Città degli Immobili Pubblici), has introduced operational tools that enable it to act not only as a manager of public property, but also as a promoter of processes for the refunctionalisation and adaptive reuse of buildings and sites, while incorporating principles of innovation, sustainability and digital transition.
The aim is to rethink and create new urban spaces for the city within a partnership framework involving central government administrations, local authorities and private investors.
There are many issues of interest that deserve further discussion at Urbanpromo: on the one hand, the administrative procedures of the public sector in response to the changing needs of cities; on the other, the relationship with spatial planning and, consequently, the responsibility to intervene in the city in order to provide the services and opportunities needed by the communities that inhabit it.
Through the involvement of several municipalities that have developed some of the most significant City Plans, the initiative aims to place the strategies adopted and the approaches to implementation at the centre of the debate, exploring how they can contribute to the substantial and inclusive development of territories and local communities.
The program of the event is in development.
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