Ravenna is redeveloping its City Docks thanks to URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions
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Ravenna (IT) is one of the major urban centres of the Emilia Romagna region, on the Adriatic coast. Amélie Cousin looks at the City Docks’ urban redevelopment project aiming to transform the former harbour and industrial area into a homogeneous and compact urban district due to become a culturally vibrant knowledge centre, giving the new future economy a boost.
The requalification of the Darsena district is based on the idea of establishing a single territorial system, from the city to the sea, enhancing the role of Ravenna as a 'gateway to the sea', recovering 136 hectares of industrial area that were largely abandoned.
From 2000 to 2015, this City Docks district was at the heart of an integrated urban strategy designed through a participatory process (The Darsena I wish) and leading to the Darsena City Operative Plan (POC Darsena). Today, Ravenna wants to move from this operational plan to an Urban Regeneration process (URP) fostered by digital innovation. This initial idea will soon see the first concrete realisations thanks to Ravenna’s involvement in 2 of the leading European
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URBACT is a European Territorial Cooperation programme that enables the cooperation of European cities within thematic networks since 2002. The programme also provides capacity-building activities and tools, and shares knowledge and good practices to city representatives and urban practitioners.
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