Green infrastructure as urban planning regulation of public residential neighborhoods

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Iacomoni Andrea

The construction of public city, intended as the set of public components related to public spaces, green areas, equipment, mobility, social residences, invents the structural objective to be placed at the base of any planning strategy, as well as regeneration of the city. Hence the need for new cognitive and design strategies, as well as a rethinking of the reference models, typical of the traditional urban society, starting from an integrated, intercalary approach that recovers significant relationships between theory, practice, physical dimensions, economic and social change.
The objective is to set a reflection on the role of the green axes for the redevelopment of popular neighborhoods in the broader theme of green infrastructure as urban planning. Residential districts, potential green lungs, can constitute a "green network".
It is part of the broader disciplinary sector that involves "resilient cities and green infrastructures" as a natural aspect, but also as a response to the anthropization of mobility. This highlights, within the public space, a decisive role of landscape and infrastructures which, when combined, contribute to the broader regeneration, through a design method in which the contextual analysis is the element on which the hypotheses of metamorphosis, as Grassi (1999) reminds us, of conformation with respect to the place itself of the intervention, wherein this meeting the place, which takes on a new form, is modified as well.
The contribution will reflect on the sustainable development of the city, highlighting useful elements to be disseminated to civil society, valid not only for understanding the places in which we live but for the changes taking place, knowing that building means collaborating with the earth, impressing the sign of a man on a landscape that will remain forever changed, contributing to that slow transformation that is the very life of cities (Yourcenar, 1951).

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