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To Have Urban Sustainability, Citizens Must Be Given a Nudge
No full textThe concept of urban sustainability is complex and multidimensional, and it cannot be reduced to simple improvements in energy performance or the adoption of more efficient technical solutions. Furthermore, also cities are complex and interconnected systems, and the sustainability of a city depends on different factors, including urban population growth, technological innovation, economic issues, the unpredictability of climate and socioeconomic changes.
Despite the challenges, it is possible to improve urban sustainability through an integrated approach involving all actors, including citizens. Because the involvement of citizens in local decision-making processes contributes to creating a sense of belonging and responsibility towards the environment and society itself
Post-pandemic trajectories of work in the city and public spaces
No full textDuring the Coronavirus emergency that we are still navigating (summer 2022), public space, despite having the quantitative capacity to withstand the impact of the pandemic, has not proven to have the flexibility needed to accommodate and put its new usage requirements in order. It is therefore essential to interject, as soon as possible, to bring elements of flexibility, organisation and optimisation to public space within the design of the city, which require the engagement of its citizens, above all in its management. This contribution identifies, through both pre and post-pandemic examples and international research, certain trajectories of work for the coming years, with regard to the need to define new standards for indoor and outdoor design and new models for activity in public spaces, in order to render them more practical and create the vision of the “15 minute city/neighbourhood”, as a possible healthcare facility to combat future episodes of infectious disease by way of the flexible and adaptive design of public space, in which multifunctional regeneration of infrastructure could have a more important role
Prosuming Public Space
Get PDFProsuming Public Space: the UNPark project illustrates the experience of the Urban Nudging Park research project, funded by the social responsibility program of the Politecnico di Milano through the competitive call Polisocial Award 2019. The book returns the complexity that characterised UNPark: a research by design project, in the wake of tactical urbanism, on the theme of the role that urban infrastructures could have in the regenerative processes of the in-between spaces.
Indeed, UNPark has been a transdisciplinarity effort which took shape through a temporary urban tactical intervention and a study about the possibility of transforming the current parking under the Serra - Monte Ceneri Overpass, in Milan, into a multifunctional space equipped for social activities, including street sports.
Prosuming Public Space: the UNPark project is a monographic book, with thematic chapters by the members of the work team, that proposes, in addition to recalling the research work phases, reflections on the city during the pandemic, on the co-design, on the multifunctional regeneration of the urban infrastructures, and about the needed transdisciplinarity in any urban design intervention
Intervento all'Incontro di studio: "Problemi attuali della sussidiarietà", in occasione della pubblicazione del volume di P. De Carli: "Sussidiarietà e governo economico"
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