Intensifying the relationship between city and territory, designing networks, mobility, production platforms by expanding the geographical boundaries of the municipalities to make the quality of the green economy an opportunity for growth even in the so-called periphery. Being something more than a smart city, thanks to a multi-urban collaboration. Trento, the greenest city in Italy, and breaking latest news, for two consecutive years Blue Flag, discover common paths and visions in the confrontation stimulated by Terrà, the first forum on the energy transition, which for three days opened Abruzzo and its projects to a national debate.
Community models compared
“Medium-sized cities, even under the pressure of Covid, have redesigned their community models and continue to do so – explains the mayor of Trento, Franco Ianeselli -: digitization, sustainability, quality of life, enhancement of historic centers are actions that we must spread, connecting with the territories around us. Trento, involving the urban and alpine environments, breaking latest news with the sea and the Apennines. Today’s objectives have been achieved not because they were not conceived yesterday, but twenty years ago ». A reference, that of the mayor, “to the issue of waste, cycle paths, urban green areas” and also to the establishment of the company for the construction and management concession of the Brenner motorway (it was February 1959, ed.), A challenge to modernity wanted by the territories, from Bolzano to Modena, and controlled by the citizens. «And it is precisely this virtuous control that allows us to obtain results – underlines the mayor of Trento -. And the collaboration with Bolzano and Innsbruck also plays a strategic role for us ».
Digital nomads
Trento, which today is about to intercept digital nomads, managers and employees of large companies, professionals, consultants, youtubers and influencers, “Italians and non-Italians, who are certainly attracted by the fast connection to the web, but also by the ability of a place to be glue of contamination between territories “. “Everyone works on their own assets – concludes Ianeselli -. We, perhaps due to the geographical position, being at the border and the last outpost before the German area, we were forced to look at what is good in the north. We are on the right track, but we don’t feel we have reached any milestones yet ».
In breaking latest news the second Blue flag
“We have gone from 250 digital certificates in 2019 to 15 thousand today”: the mayor of breaking latest news, Carlo Masci, looks with pride “at the strength and capacity” of the municipal machine, speaking of “digital democracy” for the benefit of citizens, who “today they interface more easily with the public administration “. The capital of the smallest province of Abruzzo has just won, for the second consecutive year, the Blue Flag, “an unpredictable result for a complex city, which rewards years of investments towards environmental sustainability” and has collected a contribution from the government of 12.4 million which will be used to secure the accounts of the municipality, allowing the council to create a more serene programming. In the relaunch and transition strategies, Mayor Masci launches the project “from cars to sustainable mobility”, which he himself defines as “a great cultural battle” and looks with optimism at the capacity of the territorial logistics hub (“it is our jewel”) to attract people and goods from all over the world: airport, port, railway, “whose enhancement must combine environmental and commercial aspects”.