Towards bicycle infrascapes. Active mobility as an opportunity for urban regeneration and open space redesign
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: With mounting urban challenges such as climate change, pollution, traffic congestion, and sedentary lifestyles, cities worldwide are rethinking their policies, and two concepts are at the forefront of this transformation: active mobility and green infrastructure. Active mobility prioritizes modes of transportation like walking, cycling, and using micro-mobility solutions (e-scooters, e-bikes), while green infrastructure strategically integrates natural elements into the urban fabric. Remarkably, when active mobility and green infrastructure are coupled, the impacts become amplified, offering a powerful solution to create more liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. With a particular focus on diversified greening trajectories for cities, this contribution wants to trace a comparative exploration in the frame of Bicycle Infrascapes research developed by the GICLab of Genoa University, aimed at defining a framework of international urban design and landscape projects where the notion of green infrastructure become multi-fold especially when connected to the reorganisation of mobility patterns and open space re-design.
Source: TeMA
Authors: Centanaro, Chiara, Sommariva, Emanuele
Institution: University of Genoa
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6958927796
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