Messina. Green and Blue Infrastructures for the Re-urbanisation of the City

Gasparrini, Carlo; Terracciano, Anna

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“…-the river as a guideline of urban morphology and landscape (Gasparrini, 2015), implementing demolitions of the wall along the River Guadalmedina next to the main urban axes, mending horizontally and vertically the city and the river, through multi-levels pedestrians paths and public spaces as possible "fils rouges" of a unique and complex urban experience, based on the walkability and bikeability (Ravagnan & al, 2022).…”

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“…In many cities around the world, the reconfiguration and renaturalization of the river banks is considered an excellent driver of urban regeneration and is supported by political agendas (White, 2010). The projects of the Emscher park, the Bilbao river, Madrid Rio, Quai de Seine and Seine City Park, as well as the many projects in the Netherlands illustrate the central role of rivers in relation to the upcoming urban challenges (Gasparrini, 2015;Ravagnan & Poli, 2017). Furthermore, even if the most advanced experiences are confronted with the management and regulation of an excess of rainwater in other parts of the planet, in many contexts such as Southern Europe and Middle East, the issue often relates to the scarcity of water.…”

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MULTILEVEL RIVERS FOR CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACES From research to design solutions

De Cesaris,

Iacomoni,

Ravagnan

2024

International Urban Planning Research Seminar

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The paper is part of the debate and experimentation on architectural and urban design resilient to climate change and investigates the possibilities of reusing riverbeds in important cities in the southern Mediterranean and Middle East areas such as Genoa, Malaga and Isfahan. These riverbeds, due to climate change and a series of hydraulic works, are today characterized by a strong variability of the water level and abandonment, even if they represent central areas of the urban structure available to host contemporary public spaces of cities through innovative design solutions. In this perspective, the paper contributes to the debate with a review of theoretical references and recent international practices and a comparison of three selected case studies (Bisagno-Genoa, Guadalmedina-Malaga, Zayanderud-Isfahan) that have been the scope of didactic design experimentations in the framework of international workshops promoted by Sapienza University in collaboration with other Universities. Keywords: water, multilevel-river, public space, urban regeneration.

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MULTILEVEL RIVERS FOR CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACES From research to design solutions

De Cesaris,

Iacomoni,

Ravagnan

2024

International Urban Planning Research Seminar

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“…In an urban setting, GI, defined as a structural and multifunctional mesh, can play a decisive role for the rebalancing of urban ecosystems, the reconfiguration of public space, the promotion of green economies, and the virtuous recycling of resources, triggering a new urban metabolism [29,30]. In European cities where more than 70% of the population lives [31], the problems connected to consumption and to sealing urban soil, the reduced ability of bodies of water to intercept and carry rainwater, and the heat island phenomenon require an integrated landscape/environment/architecture approach able to reduce the speed of surface runoff and to store rainwater in the ground or in other collection, purification, and recycling systems.…”

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Urban Regeneration and Green and Blue Infrastructure: The Case of the “Acilia–Madonnetta” Urban and Metropolitan Centrality in the Municipality of Rome

Crupi

2022

Urban Science

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To contribute to the debate on climate-proof urban regeneration, the illustrated study seeks to understand how the provision of new multiscalar, multidimensional, and integrated planning tools based on sustainable and resilient strategies can guarantee high levels of urban, environmental, and energy efficiency and quality, as well as circularity of resources, counteracting the effects deriving from climate change. Starting from some regulatory and design references that integrate a new ecologically oriented city model into the planning of urban projects, the contribution identifies in the construction of green and blue infrastructures (GI) new design metaphors capable of improving biodiversity; favoring ecological and energy transition; restoring the quality of the air, water, and soil environmental matrices with natural solutions; and making cities truly inclusive, sustainable, and resilient. The methodology adopted for the design of the “Acilia–Madonnetta” Urban and Metropolitan Centrality in the Municipality of Rome simulates a planning process for part of the X Municipality by applying an iterative and interscalar logic, an articulation of levels and phases with the aim of prefiguring the construction of a GI characterized by new ecological-environmental and functional endowments strictly related to the promotion of an efficient, smart, and green city. The contribution highlights the potential and limits of the proposed experimentation, relating both to the quality and innovation of design solutions and possible evolutionary lines and to the lack of clear institutional governance that is limiting the implementation of projects.

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Transformation of Disused Railways Based on ES Assessment: Sassari Case

Kobak

2024

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Messina. Green and Blue Infrastructures for the Re-urbanisation of the City

Cited by 3 publications

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MULTILEVEL RIVERS FOR CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACES From research to design solutions

MULTILEVEL RIVERS FOR CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACES From research to design solutions

Urban Regeneration and Green and Blue Infrastructure: The Case of the “Acilia–Madonnetta” Urban and Metropolitan Centrality in the Municipality of Rome

Transformation of Disused Railways Based on ES Assessment: Sassari Case

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