This paper intends to present a co-programming path that has seen professionals and non-profit organizations collaborating with the Municipality of Altamura (Italy) in the development of planning tools and urban interventions based on the creation of new public spaces through the strategic use of NbS. A critical analysis, aimed at detecting the imprinting and the strategic role that empty spaces have assumed in defining urban settlements, is carried out; Altamura is considered a representative city of Alta Murgia's area and its historical centre is reknown for its dense network of "claustri", collective peculiar alleys and small squares surrounded by the houses of the old town (Massaro&Perrucci, 2020). This urban imprinting has been pivotal in the drafting of the Integrated Urban Sustainable Development Strategy (SISUS) started by the Municipality in 2017 with the launch of the "Iperurbano" interinstitutional lab. SISUS is based on the creation of materials and immaterial resilient infrastructures, in coherence with the Puglia Landscape Plan, aiming to activate resilience-based urban regeneration (UR) processes in periurban areas coherently with a renewed city-countryside pact (Mininni, 2016). The green infrastructure's pilot project "IxE-CO2", today under construction since few months within the recent Parco San Giuliano suburban district, is analyzed. It's the result of a participatory co-design process joined by citizens, students, graduates, practitioners and academics conducted within the neighborhood. The project addresses localized issues (hydrogeological instability, water bombs, heat islands, biodiversity reduction, CO2 absorption, lack of services) aiming to face such vulnerabilities by introducing new ecosystem services (ES) (Basnou et al., 2015); ESs are key elements of an abacus of solutions and guidelines allowing the incremental implementation of the project within the district (Cottino et al., 2022). IXE-CO2 is featured in the 2021 ISPRA report on soil consumption (Munafò, 2021) due to ESs and NbS serving as an innovation factor in the governance of the UR process, pushing the limits and weakness of institutional capacity and governance strategies. These experiences aim to draw a collaborative model of intervention for an incisive management of UR processes.
Green infrastructures and the new public city: a key nexus for resilience-based urban regeneration processes in the city of Altamura
P Direnzo
2022
Abstract
This paper intends to present a co-programming path that has seen professionals and non-profit organizations collaborating with the Municipality of Altamura (Italy) in the development of planning tools and urban interventions based on the creation of new public spaces through the strategic use of NbS. A critical analysis, aimed at detecting the imprinting and the strategic role that empty spaces have assumed in defining urban settlements, is carried out; Altamura is considered a representative city of Alta Murgia's area and its historical centre is reknown for its dense network of "claustri", collective peculiar alleys and small squares surrounded by the houses of the old town (Massaro&Perrucci, 2020). This urban imprinting has been pivotal in the drafting of the Integrated Urban Sustainable Development Strategy (SISUS) started by the Municipality in 2017 with the launch of the "Iperurbano" interinstitutional lab. SISUS is based on the creation of materials and immaterial resilient infrastructures, in coherence with the Puglia Landscape Plan, aiming to activate resilience-based urban regeneration (UR) processes in periurban areas coherently with a renewed city-countryside pact (Mininni, 2016). The green infrastructure's pilot project "IxE-CO2", today under construction since few months within the recent Parco San Giuliano suburban district, is analyzed. It's the result of a participatory co-design process joined by citizens, students, graduates, practitioners and academics conducted within the neighborhood. The project addresses localized issues (hydrogeological instability, water bombs, heat islands, biodiversity reduction, CO2 absorption, lack of services) aiming to face such vulnerabilities by introducing new ecosystem services (ES) (Basnou et al., 2015); ESs are key elements of an abacus of solutions and guidelines allowing the incremental implementation of the project within the district (Cottino et al., 2022). IXE-CO2 is featured in the 2021 ISPRA report on soil consumption (Munafò, 2021) due to ESs and NbS serving as an innovation factor in the governance of the UR process, pushing the limits and weakness of institutional capacity and governance strategies. These experiences aim to draw a collaborative model of intervention for an incisive management of UR processes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
