This article is part of our Local Challenges series for Placemaking Week Europe 2025 in Reggio Emilia, where we explore five urban questions shaping the city’s future.
How can a residential corridor become a model for liveable and sustainable urban futures?
Via Premuda stretches from the historic centre into residential neighborhoods, serving as a quiet connector full of untapped potential. This final challenge focuses on linking the historic center with the city’s southern neighborhoods. This street is a key urban axis where infrastructure, neighborhood life, and daily rhythms merge. Predominantly residential and socially diverse, the area offers a powerful ground for rethinking proximity as a guiding principle for more sustainable, liveable, and community-rooted urban futures. This Urban Dive, developed as part of the European project PROXIMITIES, seeks to explore how proximity-based thinking can inspire the transformation of this important corridor.
You’ve made it to the end of our series! We hope to see you in Reggio Emilia at the Placemaking Week 2025…Ciao ragazzi!
