ACTIVE MOBILITY CARES FOR THE CITY

Iginio Rossi and Francesco Sbetti, INU – URBIT

As they move from the planning to the implementation phases, active mobility networks bring the issues of quality of life and well-being into the cultural context of reference, particularly in areas as articulated and complex as those that characterise cities. Besides contributing to infrastructural sustainability, urban enhancement and the promotion of tourism that is more respectful of the environment, landscape, local economy and place identity, cycling and walking take on the role of interpreters of an ecological transition that is not yet clearly defined. The actions provoked…

URBAN CYCLISTS

Carolina Giaimo, INU – URBIT and Benedetta Giudice, INU Giovani Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta

The group ride is being held in coordination with the conference ‘Active Mobility Cares for the City. Policies, plans and projects for urban wellbeing’ and is intended as an opportunity to build a collective awareness of the relationship between health and urban and environmental wellbeing, in relation to the dynamic activity favoured by cycling, especially if carried out through public green park areas. The large urban green lungs in fact prove to be an essential building block for the construction of a general strategy of complex…