Camilla Cerrina Feroni, Franesco Alberti, INU Toscana
The topics at the centre of the V RUR Toscana are aimed at exploring how the most recent territorial and urban planning tools implemented by Tuscan administrations have interpreted the multiple challenges of contemporaneity: from the green transition, in terms of environmental sustainability and adaptation to climate change, to accessibility to urban services and new forms of living, to temporary/transitory reuse practices.
Cities and territories are called upon to improve their climate resilience, with transversal and integrated policies identifying strategies to be pursued to this end. Cities and urban systems can play a key role in the transition towards sustainability, and to exercise this role they must act on several fronts: mobility, quality of public spaces, energy efficiency. The topicality of these issues also calls for reflection on new social habits, new housing needs and requirements, new ‘adaptive’ ways of living and inhabiting the city, and on how these new needs can contaminate the urban planning discipline and the plan, traditionally conditioned by ‘rigid functions’, with innovative solutions and devices to govern the complexity and dynamism of contemporary society. On the other hand, themes such as urban and territorial resilience, social innovation, and temporary uses that stimulate new forms of urbanity, are difficult to relate to the consolidated forms of the plan, as are growing social inequalities and innovative business models oriented towards social and environmental sustainability.
With this in mind, we turn our attention to the new plans of the three main Tuscan cities, Florence, Prato and Livorno, which are committed to renewing their territorial and urban planning instruments, and to the metropolitan city of Florence, which recently adopted the new Metropolitan Territorial Plan, which are invited to illustrate their respective paths and instruments, soliciting discussion on these issues.
PROGRAM
Greetings and introduction
Camilla Cerrina Feroni, President INU Toscana
The tools and devices deployed by the plan to govern the challenges of contemporary cities: urban regeneration, sustainable mobility, ecological transition, new forms of living, social inclusion and accessibility to services
Presentation of plans
“Operational Plan and Structural Plan of the Comune di Firenze”
Stefania Fanfani, Designer, Planning Office
“Operational and contextual Plan General variant to the Structural Plan of the City of Livorno”
Maria Rosaria Guerrini, Co-designer, Planning Office
“Municipal Structural Plan of Prato”
Pamela Bracciotti, Designer, Planning Office
“Metropolitan Territorial Plan of the Metropolitan City of Florence”
Davide Cardi, City Manager
Carlo Pisano, DIDA, University of Florence
15:50 – 17:00 according to panel
Substantiating the green transition: integration between ordinary urban planning and sector tools
“The Strategic Charter of urban sustainability of Livorno”
Giuseppe dell’Aquila, LSB architects associates
Walter Nicolino, WNA
“Action plan for urban forestry: Forest City Meadow”
Antonella Perretta and Paolo Bellocci, Office of Strategic Planning of the Natural Heritage, Municipality of Prato
“The plan of green and open spaces in Florence”
Cecilia Cantini, Director of the Comune di Firenze
Alberto Giuntoli, Landscape Designer, Studio Bellesi Giuntoli
17:00 -18:00 third panel
The plan building process, strategic urban agenda and policy integration: the plan and contemporary challenges
Introduces and moderates
Alessandro Marioni, INU Tuscany
Speakers
Caterina Biti, City Planner, Municipality of Florence
Francesco Bellandi, Councillor of the Municipality of Prato
Silvia Viviani, Councilor with powers in urban policies, environmental and urban regeneration, Municipality of Livorno
Contributions