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Le dimensioni della fragilità territoriale Il caso dei comuni di Petrella Salto e Zagarolo
No full textInnovative mobility planning between “Polis”, “Civitas” and “Urbs”. The Bologna model
No full textBologna represents a paradigmatic case of a sustainable, thriving community, a surprising cradle of policies, plans and projects conceived, developed and implemented following the idea of an emerging identity of small metropolis based on resilience, cohesion, attractiveness, and connectivity to be pursued through the construction of innovative tools in which mobility networks are not conceived as a sectoral dimension but as a crucial bridge connecting polis to civitas and urbs
Valutare la dialettica tra natura e artefatto. Origini e ruolo degli indicatori complessi
No full textIl contributo intende mettere a fuoco alcune pietre miliari in qualche modo emblematiche di quella “transizione epocale” che ha inaugurato una nuova stagione di legittimazione, a livello planetario, alla ricerca di un rinnovato “statuto disciplinare” dell’environmental planning, della compatibilità con l’Urbanistica e della necessità ineludibile e urgente di mettere in atto politiche di tutela e salvaguardia dei sistemi ecologico-territoriali di fronte a minacce sempre più invasive e allarmanti come la crisi climatica globale, le pandemie, i fenomeni migratori di massa, la crescita allarmante delle disuguaglianze
I Policy Lab come spazi di governance urbana
No full textWithin the increasing impact of Covid-19, cities are becoming paradigmatic places where the density, accessibility and proximity of resources become crucial for rethinking governance models and reducing the distance between the institutional level and the dimension of civic, private, or hybrid activation.
Significant experiences have highlighted the Policy Labs idea and its interpretations as physical structures able to build a powerful nexus for social and institutional innovation in urban regeneration. These ‘intermediate places’ can be considered interactive playgrounds, triggering new horizons in urban policies towards shared, inclusionary solutions more likely to meet the needs of local communities. Through comparisons and drawbacks arising from four case studies selected between USA (Boston) and Europe (Berlin and Bologna), the paper emphasizes the recognition of the variety of Policy Labs, encompassing the diversity of actors, within a strategy towards the construction of authentic urban innovation ecosystems
Redefining strategies for a mobility based resilience in metropolitan cities
No full textIn the controversial present season, polycentric settlements and metropolitan cities should be identified as the privileged domain for rethinking plans, programs, and projects useful to manage the community health issues looking at specific problems such as the correlation between settlement densities and public transportation or the pathological rise of structural inequalities at social and economic level.
According to the emerging principles in the scientific-disciplinary debate, despite the persistent crisis, this condition represents the trigger to speed up processes of urban regeneration requiring an integrated approach to urban and metropolitan planning and mobility, in order to create the conditions for more inclusive, green and resilient cities, mostly aiming at proximity displacements, non-polluting active mobility, flexible and inclusive public spaces.
Are local administrations proving to be equipped to manage conditions and opportunities suddenly opened up by the crisis and design virtuous scenarios of transformation? Ideas and initiatives paint a multicolour landscape and reveal the pendulum between many tactical, pop-up initiatives and rare strategic scenarios. Urban and metropolitan actors are called to face a terrific challenge: issues at stake are relevant and the cultural ‘dna’ of mobility styles, more or less sensitive to sustainable displacements, is making the difference even in emergency contingencies
Emerging Mobility Paradigms towards the Resilient Metropolis
No full textIn the last decades, the condition of urban settlements has radically changed, overwhelmed by the recurring global crises, from climate risks to mass migrations, from unpredictable pandemics to threatening wars. Scholars, administrators, promoters, communities - main characters in the urban scene - are arguing about new interpretation keys to manage the urban scenarios, starting from the expanding horizon of the term resilience applied to contemporary metropolitan cities. Within the kaleidoscopic perspective of the European domain, the book explores the innovation in mobility planning as an emerging paradigm of the resilient metropolitan identit
Le dimensioni della fragilità territoriale.Il caso dei comuni di Petrella Salto e Zagarolo
No full textFin dal secondo dopoguerra, a seguito dell’impulso virtuoso della nascita e sviluppo delle scuole di ambientalismo scientifico, si sono evoluti e consolidati nel tempo approcci, metodi, tecniche e strumenti finalizzati alla valutazione degli effetti degli interventi antropici sull’ambiente. Il loro sviluppo si è articolato sulle diverse fasi del così detto “ciclo del progetto”, dall’analisi e interpretazione (ex ante, in itinere ed ex post) dei valori ambientali e paesaggistici naturali e antropici del territorio, alla misurazione quantitativa e qualitativa dei principali effetti delle trasformazioni d’uso del suolo alle differenti scale, fino all’applicazione dei dispositivi valutativi nell’ambito degli strumenti, che oggi definiamo più organicamente di “governo del territorio”, nell’ambito delle strategie e delle scelte della pianificazione. Un processo evolutivo lungo, articolato e ricco di varianti che ha condotto a riflettere sulla realtà ambientale in modo sempre più sottile e sofisticato, distinguendo e ordinando gerarchicamente categorie, fattori, componenti elementari e le loro modalità di valutazione quantitativa e qualitativa attraverso l’individuazione e l’utilizzo equilibrato di specifici indicatori semplici e via via più complessi. Il contributo intende aprire un primo campo di riflessione sulle questioni della “fragilità territoriale” attraverso la definizione di indicatori capaci di valutarne, sinteticamente e analiticamente in parallelo, entità e natura
Rome and the (lost) landscape of the Tiber
No full textIl testo illustra il paesaggio storico del fiume Tevere. Un paesaggio che è scomparso dalla città allorquando furono edificati le arginature per proteggere Roma dalle frequenti inondazioni.The text illustrates the historical landscape of the Tiber River. A landscape that disappeared from the city when the embankments were built to protect Rome from frequent floods
The Navona Lake and the Eels of the Pantheon. Architecture and landscape for flooding
No full textTiber is much more than the watercourse between its two banks: it is a much greater depth, encompassing entire parts of Rome. To understand the real extension of the Tiber, one should consider the hydro-geological map, where the lightest tones represent the valleys, made of silty sediments, accumulated over thousands of years, thanks to the presence of water. This imprint corresponds to the hydrological network of Rome, and it represents the actual thickness of the Tiber and its tributaries. If we mapped the ensemble of buildings, roads, gardens, monuments, any kind of infrastructure and construction that insist on that area, the result would be a portrait of what can be said the river-city of Rome, a crasis between two worlds − the river and the city − that we usually tend to separate. Finally, we could say that Rome is not a city on the Tiber but a city in the Tiber. Yet, floods have been part of Rome’s history for over 2600 years. In ancient times, floods were not considered eliminable: the ‘intemperance’ of the river had to be lived with and floods were seen as a phenomenon to adapt-to rather than fought-against. We could look at this story to think our contemporary cities, obsessed as we are by control and predictability, safety, and efficiency, sedated by the analgesic categories with which we have learned to describe the world we like, well-ordered, disciplined, and therefore static, without surprises, because transformation, transition, and change are concepts about which we find ourselves unprepared. We have no choice but to learn from the rivers, which know well that they do not exist
What Interpretations for 'Smart Specialization Strategies' in European Urban Regions? Lessons from Boston
No full textThis contribution aims to highlight the crucial challenges faced by the regions of the European Union (EU) when applying the EU’s ‘Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation’ (RIS3) policy to implement its ‘Cohesion Policy’ and ‘Europe 2020’ agendas. The author maintains that policymakers, planners, entrepreneurs, local communities and the other stakeholders involved in the future of urban regions should adopt a fresh view of the current innovation strategies at the forefront of the European debate, informed in particular by lessons from US experiences. With reference to the current literature on the subject, the author argues that it is possible to draw insights from international best practice—such as the clusters present in the Boston area and the ‘innovation districts’ that have been growing across the US over the past few years—and assumes that some similarities exist between ‘innovation clusters’ and ‘smart specialisation’. Following the in-depth discussion of the main disciplinary schools of thought about the key features of the RIS3 and the ways in which it resembles and diverges from cluster policy, the paper proposes a critical interpretation of what may be deemed an ‘innovation strategy’ at the urban level. Lessons drawn from the Boston innovation strategy may be considered significant with respect to the RIS3 path to be implemented in European Union regions and urban areas. The paper concludes that, in order to pursue a genuinely place-based and entrepreneurial innovation process, it is necessary to support grassroots projects—both business and social—rather than to prioritize only top-down, economic and ‘real-estate’ driven planning initiatives
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