Digital Valtellina: A Regional Plan to Revitalize Italy’s Inner Areas Through Remote Work
摘要
The Valtellina region is facing serious challenges of economic degrowth and population decline. We explore how the global trend of remote work, which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, can be used as a catalyst for economic revitalization in this area. This project proposes a regional plan to revitalize Valtellina’s local economies and develop tourism through remote work. This is centered on a city-town-village development strategy, a place-based framework that proposes physical, digital, and policy interventions for the various scales of towns in the region. The key principles of our strategy are to (1) develop a “Remote Work Valley”, (2) build a new knowledge economy, and (3) further strengthen sustainable tourism in the region.