Peripheries regeneration through walkability and resilience: notes on an ongoing experience

A virtuous inter-institutional cooperation gives rise to participatory activities that result in the Urban Mobility Plan, in the first place, and in a tense integrated project to reconstruct the relationship between water and forma urbis, starting from open spaces and mobility, and then regenerate other spaces in the redesign of degraded low income settlements. The approach is progressively participatory, moving from the indirect analyzes and the questionnaire survey towards the shared construction of trees of the problems, objectives and actions to which the mobility planning is based on the scale of the entire Municipality. The work leads to integrated planning and sector planning demonstrating how, in the outdoor environment, an important part of the safety and health protection needs can be satisfied by the redesign of the built environment reinterpreted in a bio-climatic key, to mitigate the effects of the urban environment on the climate, to adapt it to the effects of climate change. This redesign is based, first and foremost, on the redesign of public space, and of mobility oriented to walkability and modal interchange in an integrated, modular and, at the same time, project with strong internal and external coherence.