Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab

Website - Donors:  Hines - Intesa San Paolo - MilanoSesto - Prelios

Director Edoardo Croci

Edoardo Croci

Academic Fellow in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and Professor of Practice at Bocconi since 1988. Senior Research Fellow and member of the Management Committee at the GREEN Center for Research on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks, where he coordinates the Green Economy Observatory and the Smart City Observatory. He is also Coordinator of several European projects (Horizon 2020, Life, Intelligent Energy Europe) for Bocconi University on the topic of sustainable urban development. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University (1991/1992). He graduated with a degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.

Joint Purpose

The mission of the SUR-Lab - financed with the generous contributions of Hines, Intesa San Paolo, MilanoSesto and Prelios - is to develop and spread knowledge on sustainable urban regeneration processes and how they generate value for the private sector and society.​

Bocconi University represents the ideal context to host the SUR-Lab, given its competences and international standing. At the same time, the SUR-Lab is an opportunity for Bocconi to integrate its research and educational activities with the topic of sustainable urban regeneration, activating internal and external links and synergies.​

Bocconi University is located in Milan, a city where massive transformations of urban spaces and international investments have taken place in the last decade and several developers and designers are currently active. Milan is a living lab on sustainable urban regeneration, in connection with other global cities.​

Core Activities

  • Research activities on innovative and cross-disciplinary topics related to sustainable urban regeneration processes (a research topic is investigated each year, guiding all the research activities)​
  • Case studies repository development: identification, selection, analysis, classification and description of international best practices. ​
  • Study visits in Italy and abroad to outstanding experiences of urban regeneration​
  • Support teaching activities for the MSc program course at Bocconi University on Economics of sustainable urban regeneration 2021/2022 academic year​
  • Workshop development (one per year). The SUR-Lab workshop will present the results and outcomes produced by the research area. International experts will be involved and best practices will be presented. The workshops will be open to practitioners and students.​
  • Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) development. The MOOC will be launched during the second year, and it will be active for the whole duration of the SUR-Lab. The MOOC will cover different topics related to regeneration processes and it will engage representatives from international organizations, the SUR-Lab Donors and their partners. Participants will have free access to the MOOC materials repository (documents, videos, case studies, etc.). ​
  • Support to the new MSc program course at Bocconi University on Economics of sustainable urban regeneration. Testimonies, case studies could be drawn from Donors experiences
  • Events organization