Sustainable Strategies in Mobility Planning towards Resilient Cities

Abstract

The recent times see cities at forefronts in the fight against the pandemic in the framework of the harmful effects of climate change and urban inequalities issues. This territorial and urban condition is emphasizing the need for a 'holistic' approach to urban resilience and the importance to focus on sustainable mobility policies and planning towards green and inclusive metropolis. The main goal of this paper is to investigate and highlight innovative approaches in European Sustainable Mobility Plans, aimed at overcoming the sectoral critical aspects within a metropolitan resilience perspective. Bologna represents a paradigmatic case of sustainable metropolitan area with new plans based on resilience, cohesion, connectivity. Findings and lessons are expected to be useful in order to extract relevant suggestions for the specific interpretation styles of resilience in planned strategies and specific projects to be applied, notably in the European context. This paper illustrates the first findings of some investigation paths within the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome International Research Project “Infrastrutture per la mobilità. Verso nuovi paradigmi interpretativi e nuovi strumenti operativi per la resilienza delle città metropolitane europee” (coord. Monardo B. and Ravagnan C.) and of the participation to the Working Group “Covid-19, Cities and Governance” of the Global Pandemic Network (coord. Lauri C. and Crispi G.). In this framework §1 and 2 are attributable to C. Ravagnan, and § 3 and 4 to B. Monardo.