Azioni integrate per la sicurezza e la qualità urbana: nuovi strumenti di analisi e progetto/Integrated actions for the safety and urban quality: new tools for analysis and design

Francesco Bagnato Professore Associato – Dipartimento DASTEC - Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria Integrated actions for the safety and urban quality: new tools for analysis and design The European Commission has confirmed, with the Leipzig Charter, the urgency to operate towards the “sustainable city” attributing to such idea the urgency to pursue an urban development that reduces noise pollution, land consumption, traffic congestion, social exclusion. For this purpose, the research changes the role of the “street” that becomes a guide-element for urban design that makes a city, a liveable city. Only planning pleasant, safe, accessible, legible paths, it’s possible to get a “people oriented” urban realm. The tool, builds through research, uses a systemic approach that, from observation of context and from its interpretation, declines indications, recommendations and procedures as guides of “best practices” for design process. The proposed solutions have the aim to improve pedestrian, bicycle and public transport movements, building intermodal points, accessible and safe spaces, but also a sense of identity with city strengthening local distinctiveness and culture. The tool therefore is, on the one hand, a testing device for plan, on the other hand, a resource to resolve, through the solutions provided, recurring issues. Although it wants to be a support for design processes, with a more “open” framework in accordance with “ideals”, many times emphasized, to think of road and path as “publics spaces”.