ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact

EUROPEAN
UNION
European Regional
Development Fund
ENTER.HUB 1st phase city description
1 Reggio Emilia IT
CHARACTERISATION
Reggio Emilia is internationally known as one of the first places in
rankings on the quality of life, a city of young people and youth:
infant schools and nurseries are universally recognized as the
pedagogical approach designed and implemented around the
world. Reggio is among the first in Italy for export and employment
rate and a city in continued economic growth, thanks to various
industries. In the circuit of the city of art, the city approaches to
ancient monuments, works of contemporary art such as “I ponti di
Calavatra”, “lo spazio Gerra”, works of “Invito a“ and events like
Fotografia Europea. In addition, the city is rich in cultural and
social ferment due to a large number of organizations, services and
the university implemented.
Over the years, Reggio Emilia has established nine twinning
agreements, six pacts of friendship and is linked to over two
hundred international companies; It participates in numerous
European and international projects including the “Intercultural
cities” project (Reggio is the only Italian city to follow this
project). Reggio is even the homeland of the “Tricolore” national
flag, born in 1797 in the current city hall. The city is also Gold
Medal of the Resistance.
LOCAL CHALLENGES
Reggio Emilia would, thanks to ENTER.HUB, to promote the revitalization of economy
and relations among people through: a real highway-high speed interchange junction,
as the high way runs parallel the HSl and only 30 m away; a re-qualification and
strengthening of the local railway lines, in order to get an efficient, sustainable, easily
accessible and public transport system and to complete the already planned service
made by the local bus lines.
Often the problems faced concern the great number of public and private actors to be
involved in the planning processes and decisions and the lack of tools specifically
dedicated to the analysis and proposals in the context not of the single city or
agglomeration anymore, but of the hub catchment area.
At now, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia has developed feasibility studies and project
hypothesis for facing these problematic, and at this point it really need a confrontation
at an EU level for understanding how to proceed and in on what priorities to focus
given the restraint budgets and other limitations resulting of the crisis.
Managing authority
General directorate productive activities, commerce and tourism
Direzione generale Attività produttive, Commercio e Turismo - Emilia Romagna Region
ENTER.HUB Baseline study 2012.10.31