The new culture of territorial sustainability must promote new projects to overcome the notion that:
“progress is incompatible with environmental quality.”
It is necessary to focus on qualitative development, not just quantitative growth.
The natural environment is not a building lot.
Today, if mobility is an important territorial parameter, the issue is to identify a new mobility model,
a new balance between public and individual transport.
We must consider new transport technologies and the creation of intermodal transport stations that go beyond mere conversion into points of new centrality.
We must use the telecommunications network in planning as a parameter. If we work within a network, small settlements acquire a greater critical mass.
In contemporary cities, public space is the basis of quality of life, the renewal of generations, and the lasting capacity of buildings.
The economic crisis, coupled with the proven ineffectiveness of iconic buildings (without any public value),
requires us to refocus our attention on urban issues rather than individual buildings.
Nicola Marinello
CEO of Ni-ma.it Office