Milan-Cortina 2026, a carbon neutral Olympic Village

Urban Stories meets Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Design Partner Colin Koop, who talks for the first time about the project to transform the Porta Romana railway yard.

Parco Romana, the new poetics of ecology

Architect Carlo Ratti tells Urban Stories how the ambitious project of redeveloping the historic Porta Romana district came about.

Connected and inclusive: the features of future cities

The guests of the Regenerazione Italia dialogue, organized by COIMA, deepen the issues related to the regeneration of the territory.

The Recovery Fund will improve our cities

European funds are an opportunity to reconsider Italian cities from a smart city perspective, by exploiting three dimensions: sustainability, digitalization and social inclusion.

The green revolution of Pirelli 39

The regeneration of the Pirellino skyscraper, assigned to Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti, relaunches the vision of a Milan that wagers on the future by tackling the great challenges of the climate crisis.

The cities of the future? People-friendly, according to Stefano Boeri

In an ever-changing environment, critical events and climate change are forcing us to consider the relationship between people, nature and the spaces we live in, in a brand-new way.

The role of universities in urban innovation

Universities are candidates to play a key role in building the cities of the future, becoming the point of contact between scientific research, public administrators, the real estate sector and citizenship.

Italy’s land is the most valuable resource for its recovery

The moments of crisis are those in which it is more important to know how to seize opportunities, enhancing one's resources in an innovative, responsible and competent way. The prospects for our country in the words of Manfredi Catella at the COIMA Real Estate Forum in Rome.

Pirelli 35 opens up to the city

Pirelli 35, a historic building in the Milanese urban fabric, has been returned to the community modernised in a contemporary perspective, thanks to the ideas of Snøhetta and Park Associati.

Planning Resilient Cities

We talk with Gioia Ghezzi about the evolution of urban environments and the role they have played during the pandemic.

BAM’s message of rebirth on the notes of Beethoven

Just a few days after the Back to the City Concert, BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano has returned with a new life and a rich programme of events.

Cities, capital and skills for a sustainable recovery

Italy, the land of a thousand bell towers, can be a sustainable regional development model as alternative to megacity concentration.