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Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. Internationale.; International audience

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. Internationale.; International audience

Public space and street networks form a significant and central determinant of urban quality. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused their crucial importance in the reorganisation of places that are “safe” because they allow movement through cities with minimal risk of contagion. While addressing the need for social distancing, open air exercise, and mobility without use of public transport, these measures resulted in other environmental and social benefits. Living with the coronavirus pandemic has produced a series of adaptative actions, such as barring or limiting automobile traffic, thereby expanding street space for pedestrians and bicyclists, whose impact is, as yet, difficult to fathom because of their contingent, temporary nature. In this context, this case study proposes a sustainable bicycle network to inform the future, permanent street redesign. Based on topographic, morphologic, and climatic data, it evaluates a series of contiguous road sections, defining redesign capacities and critical conditions to implement sustainable interventions to manage urban runoff, mitigate of extreme heat events, expand pedestrian paths and provide a bicycle network. This holistic approach to sustainable urban design evaluation, supported by reproducible data and parameters, serves as a replicable model for the sustainable redesign of roads in other urban settings. The extent, integration, and complexity of the study engaged an interdisciplinary framework, facilitating detailed planning and design and quantified assessments of environmental outcomes.

The interdisciplinary approach was applied to analyze the complexity of the Mediterranean landscape of a case study of urban and peri-urban areas surrounding the Strada Statale 7bis, in Campania. In order to mitigate the periodic flooding of the area, a Green Street network was studied for the sustainable management of rainwater and the reduction of waterproofing in the urban area, capable of improving the quality of the open space, wastewater, and air, recharge underground aquifers, counteract high-temperature regimes by decreasing the effects of urban heat island and the greenhouse gases.

L'approccio interdisciplinare è stato applicato per analizzare la complessità del paesaggio mediterraneo di un caso studio di zone urbane e periurbane circostanti la Strada Statale 7bis, in Campania. Al fine di mitigare i periodici allagamenti dell'area, si è studiata una rete di Green Street per la gestione sostenibile delle acque meteoriche e la riduzione dell'impermeabilizzazione nel territorio urbano, in grado di migliorare la qualità dello spazio aperto, delle acque reflue e dell'aria, ricaricare le falde acquifere sotterranee, contrastare i regimi di alte temperature diminuendo gli effetti di isola di calore urbana e la quantità di gas serra.