“Impact regenerative design” : paradigms, strategies and mapping. Enabling Technologies for the city-laboratory in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria

“Regenerative cities” are those which, more than others, avoiding any possible hierarchical urban di­mension, trust in the ability of trans­formations as effects of urban acu­puncture and their power to emanate other values and vital energy. “Vulnerable Urbanism”, as defined by Ellin (2003), no longer considers the user to be a product of transfor­mations, but a collaborator in sus­tainable planning based on “a con­text that regenerates and is reborn”. In the circular urban metabolism (flows of materials, energy, water, vegetation, and land as resourc­es and ecosystem services) and in recycling activities (repair and re­claim), this trajectory finds its most lively productive dimension on the architecture and on the territories; it becomes the feasible direction in planning the innovation and sus­tainability of transformations and in open and self-informed processes of “transitioning communities”.