Alternative to the metropolis or satellite?
Cremona, and with it many others, are candidates to be an alternative to Milan. The proximity to the capital has already made it the location for two important detached university centers of the Polytechnic and the Catholic University. But the concern of the city’s public administration is to make students permanent, to convince them to choose Cremona as their place of residence, bringing the population balance back to a more sustainable balance from a social point of view.
Therefore, by 2027 theformer San Francesc Hospitalor, already a church in past centuries, is transformed into an urban place dedicated to young people’s projects.
The project aims above all to have a social, cultural and economic impact on an entire neighborhood of the historic center, through interventions that can serve first of all the youngest segment of the city’s population – children, adolescents, young people, students, young families – and attractiveness towards external audiences – off-site students, workers.
From this point of view, the foundations of Youth center strategy are based on the desire to support and harmonize three very important city resources: the human capital represented by young people, the material one represented by buildings and the immaterial one, represented by social and cultural scope of the interventionwhich cannot ignore the collaboration between the actors who, in different capacities, take part in the life of the city.
