Difficult to imagine a more challenging and competitive scenario than Singapore among the most green and livable metropolises in the world. Difficult to compete with a more growing market than that of Southeast Asia, where the island city-state is preparing to create the special economic area Johor-Singapore (JS-SEZ) together with Malaysia: an area equal to almost double from Shenzhen in China, with incentives for strategic sectors, research centers, university centers, new logistics airports and residential areas. Yet the Italian, anthropocentric, sustainable model, capable of creating social value, even on a large scale, has been able to keep the comparison with the most ambitious projects in the area.
Inspiring Cities is the title of the seminar which took place atEmbassy of Italy in Singapore In collaboration with Coima, a leading Italian group in the development and management of real estate assets. An initiative that wanted to take stock of the cities, the vertebral column of the companies of the future, with a visibility that intends to reach at least the next 50 years.
Open by the Italian Ambassador to Singapore Dante Brandi, followed by the speech of the ambassador of Italy in Malaysia Massimo Rustic, the event hosted the interventions of Alberto Agazzi, head of the International markets in Generali Real Estate; Justin Gabbani, CEO Investment Management of the Australian Lendlease; Jonathan Yap, CEO of Capitalland Development, one of the major protagonists of the real estate developments in Singapore; Ahmad Fadzli Zainudin.
The trends dictated by demographic movements, the aging of the population, the mobility of data and environmental sustainability in the framework of shared ESG criteria, They are the great themes addressed. If Italy is among the countries of the euro area grown more after the pandemic from Covid-19, Milan is among the most performing cities in Europe, with a growth that reaches up to 13.4% compared to an average of 7.2% of the main European cities. And in the showcase, some of the Italian excellence: projects such as Milan Porta Nuova District, first in the world to receive the Leed and Well for Community certification, which recognizes social sustainability. The Mind, who will redevelop the area that has hosted Expo Milano 2015. The development of the Porta Romana airport which will host the Olympic village of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and subsequently allow the recovery of a disused area of 190,000 square meters.
If there is something that the most original “treated” on the urban planning ever written, “The invisible cities” of Italo Calvino, has taught (and handed down) is the audacity in the imagination. In the critical aspra published by the Italian writer in 1972, invisible was synonymous with unlivable, as the author himself said. In the continuous balance between drawing and redesigning, public and private investments, individual and collective space, today possible cities find space. At one time they were the central square, the churches, the municipalities. Today, the data centers next to the vertical woods, the village that enrolls in the metropolis, the use that leaves room for reuse, the demolition of carbon emissions that proceeds hand in hand with solid and distributed social growth. And finally, the memory that becomes planning. Since, as Calvino wrote, “the city does not say its past, it contains it as the lines of one hand”.
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