Mesh-Cities, PostCar-Cities: mobility spaces for a new socio-urban regeneration

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Emanuele Sommariva
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/108-109
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 55-68 File size 880 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2024-108005
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Mobility is one of the factors that has characterised the evolution of cities: from the ancient city, compact and stratified with carts and carriages (walking city), to the introduction of the first mechanised mass transportation, to the new city with wider and reticular layout (transit city), in which cars spread, up to the sprawl (automotive city), where urban morphologies fade into suburbanisation. In the era of Hyperautomobility (Freund, Martin, 2009) and the global climate crisis, the search for new paradigms for sustainable mobility represents a crucial urban issue. Through the case study of Genoa, the paper promotes the adoption of bicycle inter-modality systems and the decrease of the car dependency of the Ligurian coastal conurbation.

Keywords: post-car city; multi-modality; public space

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Emanuele Sommariva, Mesh-Cities, PostCar-Cities: spazi della mobilità per una nuova rigenerazione socio-urbana in "TERRITORIO" 108-109/2024, pp 55-68, DOI: 10.3280/TR2024-108005