Urbanpromo – Progetti per il Paese is a leading cultural event focused on the broad theme of urban regeneration, understood as a process of strategies, policies, and actions aimed at achieving sustainable urban development
Find out more! keyboard_arrow_rightThe gallery has brought together each year, from 2014 to the present, a selection of initiatives, experiences, and contributions presented by exhibitors, offering a digital space to explore ideas, solutions, and best practices for transforming and enhancing territories.
The conference program brings together presentations, meetings, round tables, and in-depth sessions held during the event and beyond, offering a rich schedule of content, perspectives, and discussions on the many key themes of urban transformation.
Urbanpromo offers two ways to participate in its conferences.<br /> You can attend the event in person, or alternatively follow the initiatives via live streaming directly on our website.
Urbanpromo offers multiple opportunities to showcase new plans and projects, as well as the best initiatives. Among these stand out presentations at numerous and high-profile conferences, webinars, and round tables, publication in the online Gallery, and/or inclusion in the digital exhibition set up at the Innovation Center of the Fondazione CR Firenze.
The history of the building that hosts Urbanpromo dates back to the end of the 17th century. The palace, designed by the architect Giovan Battista Foggini at the request of Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici, was built in 1695 as the Granary of Abundance to store grain for the city in times of famine.
Institutional partners and public authorities and companies that, with their valuable strategic and technical support, make this event possible.
A space designed to provide a clear and always accessible overview of activities, key figures, projects, and updates. Here you will find official news, press materials, and curated content that tell the story of our evolution over time.
QUALITY OF LIFE
Facts and views – 2015 Edition JUNE 2015 a cura di Eurostat Quality of life in Europe – facts and views presents different aspects of people’s well-being combining for the first time objective indicators with subjective evaluation of individuals’ situations and covering various aspects of quality of life. The indicators are analysed together with ...
RENEWABLE ENERGY AND JOBS
Annual review 2015 MARCH 2015 a cura di IRENA | International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA estimates that renewable energy employed 7.7 million people, directly or indirectly, around the world in 2014 (excluding large hydropower). This is an 18% increase from the number reported last year. In addition, IRENA conducted the first-ever global estimate of ...
STATE AND OUTLOOK 2015
SOER 2015 – Executive Summary FEBRUARY 2015 a cura di European Environment Agency In 2015, Europe stands roughly halfway between the initiation of EU environmental policy in the early 1970s and the EU’s 2050 vision of ‘living well within the limits of the planet’ . Underlying this vision is a recognition that Europe’s economic ...
WIND IN POWER
2014 European statistics FEBRUARY 2015 a cura di EWEA | European Wind Energy Association 11,791.4 MW of wind power capacity (worth between €13.1bn and €18.7bn) was installed in the EU during 2014, an increase of 3.8% compared to 2013 annual installations. Wind power is the generating technology with the highest rate for new installations in ...
URBANISTICA PRIZE 2014
Supplement of URBANISTICA 153 NOVEMBER 2014 edited by Valentina Cosmi The winning projects are evidence of the direction in which it moves Italian planning. Almost everyone, in fact, bee concerned with the emerging issues of urban regeneration, such as the reuse of industrial areas, rail and port abandoned, intervention on public spaces of historic ...
ATTITUDES OF EUROPEANS TOWARDS WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
Conducted by TNS Political & Social at the request of the European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment JUNE 2014 co-ordinated by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication Resource efficiency and waste management are key elements of EU environmental policy and the Europe 2020 strategy. It is essential to get a clear picture of citizens’ ...
PROGRESS ON RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND DECOUPLING IN THE EU-27
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY | TECHNICAL REPORT LUGLIO 2014 Messages emerging from environmentally extended input-output analysis with relevance to the Resource Efficiency Roadmap and the 7EA. 《This short report, consisting of a series of key messages, was prepared to illustrate ways in which input-output-based analysis can support policy makers in their decisions and choices. It follows up on the 2013 EEA ...
URBAN RESILIENCE: LIFE+ PROJECTS AND EUROPEAN POLICIES
LIFE | PLATFORM MEETING APRIL 2014 Summary report. 《Urban resilience can be defined as the ability of an urban territory/community exposed to hazards such as Climate Change, disaster, economic and social poverty, to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from these. A resilient approach addresses the following stakes: – Reduction of the environmental impacts of the cities/territories (pollution/wastes) – Mitigation/Adaptation ...
MAPPING SMART CITIES IN THE EU
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT | COMMISSION ON INDUSTRY, RESEARCH AND ENERGY JANUARY 2014 Directorate general for internal policies – Policy Department A: Economic and scientific Policy 《This report was commissioned to provide background information and advice on Smart Cities in the European Union (EU) and to explain how existing mechanisms perform. In exploring this, a working definition of a Smart ...
INCEPTION REPORT: STUDY ON PROMOTING MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN SUPPORT OF EUROPE 2020
EUROPEAN COMMISSION | Regional and Urban Policy JULY 2014 a cura di: Kai Böhme, Sabine Zillmer, Sofie Jæger & Frank Holstein (Spatial Foresight) Lisa Hörnström, Alex Dubois & Stefanie Lange-Scherbenske (Nordregio) 《The aim of this study on promoting multi-level governance in support of Europe 2020 is to generate lessons learned from existing experience and to ...