Regenerating cities and territories, starting from urban outskirts: from Renzo Piano’s manifesto, the idea of a new Renaissance.
From concrete examples of cities that have managed to regenerate themselves to reflections on the indispensable role of innovation in materials and technologies for a new Renaissance of the country.
Many interesting insights emerged during the conference by Fondazione Cav. Lav. Carlo Pesenti, whose conclusions were entrusted to Minister Lupi.
Bergamo, January 24, 2015 – Mending the outskirts through urban regeneration, for a new Renaissance of the country.
“Our cities and our territories need major redevelopment interventions,” explained Giampiero Pesenti at the opening. “A revival that improves urban realities, especially the outskirts, and the very lives of the people who live there.
This has happened and is happening in many parts of the world and Europe: think of Marseille, Berlin, London, and many other urban realities where old and degraded areas of city centers have made way for more sustainable, more beautiful, more livable neighborhoods, contributing to the economic and social rebirth of entire cities.
This is exactly what our country needs today: a series of courageous operations to reclaim large unused or poorly used areas that allow triggering a virtuous cycle of replacement of buildings that no longer guarantee acceptable standards of structural safety, energy efficiency, and also livability from architectural, urbanistic, and social perspectives.
Today, innovation in the field of materials and technologies offers us solutions unthinkable in the past, and it is our duty to ensure that these achievements are available to everyone, especially, perhaps, to those living in the most marginal areas.”
“It is a theme deeply rooted in the social fabric,” emphasized Carlo Pesenti, President of the Foundation, “We are talking about people’s quality of life, territory protection, and economic development. We openly say it: value creation is the necessary precondition to be able to share the well-being generated by business.
An operation where collective interests intertwine with business interests, towards a social and economic Renaissance of our country.
However, this operation can only be carried out through a great political-institutional vision that encourages sustainable innovation of products and processes. We feel on the front line in this respect, together with many other Italian companies.” .
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A New Renaissance
This was the focus of the Foundation’s annual event, which again this year brought together some of the leading figures of Italian culture to discuss and stimulate the vision necessary to trigger a new Renaissance capable of redefining the fabric of cities and including those social classes that currently experience the urbanization process in a conflicting way.
Comunicato Stampa Intervento Renzo Piano Programma del Convegno Rassegna stampa
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