Prato

Italy

Mission city Pilot city
Italy National Platform
Prato Mission City Label
Population 190k
City Area 250.6 km²
City active since June 2022

"Prato is a vibrant, contradictory, innovative, conflictual city: a city that, since the beginning of the 20th century and particularly after the Second World War, has been a formidable urban, social, cultural and economic laboratory in which new models have often been experimented. Today, compared to international metropolises, it is a small city, but within it has all their complexity.

 

In fact, it is part of those medium-sized cities in which new social models of coexistence, new forms of production, and innovative ways of educating the younger generations are being experimented globally: medium-sized cities that are endowed with that flexibility, capacity to absorb change, and readiness for innovation necessary to verify the effects of these transformations in a short time and indicate new possible scenarios towards which to set out on the difficult path of overcoming the international economic crisis.

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