Towards an integrated approach to sustainable development
Creating more sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) requires simultaneous action on social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
Isolated projects are not enough; coordinated and synergic actions are needed to collectively enhance the quality of life within the local context.
VISION
We aim to create dynamic cities and resilient territories
In every vacant or underutilised space, we see an opportunity to reinvent functions and services for the territory, responding to the community’s evolving needs, engaging stakeholders, and enhancing the available local resources.
We believe in integrated solutions and incremental approaches
To guide the regeneration process, we design win-win strategies involving the public, private, and social sectors, and we promote experimental approaches that allow for continuous learning along the way.
Promoting solutions to expand the supply of affordable housing for the segments of the population most excluded from the market, through projects that support new forms and models of living.
Temporary reactivation of spaces to test functional hypotheses and management models before proceeding with permanent transformation, and to generate insights useful for defining long-term reuse strategies.
Reorganizing citizen service systems through an approach that enhances proximity, fosters the involvement of local networks, and promotes synergies with existing service offerings.
Using culture as a driver for local development by guiding the re-functionalisation of cultural assets and encouraging community engagement to create management models that renew the range of services offered to the territory.
Definition of tourism development strategies that enhance local potential, generate benefits for the territory, avoid displacement phenomena, and instead support possible synergies with the needs and activities of the local community.
Design and management of the implementation of complex and articulated intervention programmes that apply sustainable development goals through strategic initiatives and the joint and coordinated management of physical and social actions.
Creation of conditions to reverse the dynamics of depopulation and abandonment of marginal territories, through interventions that improve the well-being of current residents and develop new drivers for local attractiveness.
Facilitation of collaboration among public administrations, third-sector organisations, and the local community to jointly define particularly innovative projects and services, also leveraging on the procedures introduced by the new Third Sector Code.
Organisation of initiatives through which businesses and other stakeholders establish relationships with their local territories, taking responsibility for the well-being of resident communities and positioning themselves in alignment with ESG objectives.
Solutions and scenarios for the repurposing of unused public real estate assets, ensuring that public interest objectives are met while creating opportunities for partnership agreements with private entities.
Strengthening the role of commercial spaces and operators as key anchors for the territory, promoting initiatives that serve citizens and contribute to greater vitality and attractiveness of the local context.
Planning of small-scale interventions and events in public spaces that, by creating new opportunities for use, help transform marginal and identity-less spaces into lively and vibrant places inhabited by communities.
PUBLICATIONS
KCity contributes to the scientific debate on regeneration
PAOLO COTTINO | DARIO DOMANTE
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