Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region

In the Milan experience, Covid-19 emergency crucial issues were already hidden weaknesses of the city and its region: the limited capacity of transit transport, roads and public spaces, with crowding problems for both work and leisure. The challenge is to regenerate the competitive “human measure” o...

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Main Authors: Diego Deponte, Giovanna Fossa, Andrea Gorrini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università di Napoli Federico II 2020-06-01
Series:TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
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Online Access:http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/6857
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spelling doaj-578e0f1f4cba464fb240aebe5457d0a62020-11-25T03:27:11ZengUniversità di Napoli Federico IITeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment1970-98891970-98702020-06-0113314910.6092/1970-9870/68576857Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its regionDiego Deponte0Giovanna Fossa1Andrea Gorrini2Systematica SrlPolytechnic University of MilanoSystematica SrlIn the Milan experience, Covid-19 emergency crucial issues were already hidden weaknesses of the city and its region: the limited capacity of transit transport, roads and public spaces, with crowding problems for both work and leisure. The challenge is to regenerate the competitive “human measure” of Milan, based on its unique relationship between public spaces and mobility, overcoming its health risk. The report raises a question on the established transit-oriented development approach, focusing on spaces “in between” and not only on nodes and networks. The traditional “invariants” welcome changes: the spatial structure of the public realm becomes a platform for ever-changing mobility and services, providing quality of life for communities, users and tourists. With this respect, streets represent by far the most strategic asset of the urban public realm. They can be reshaped in resilient infrastructure capable to respond to new forms of mobility based on a renewed Mobility-as-A-Service paradigm, as final result of different travel behaviors of the post pandemic scenario, among which an expected reduction of the overall “mobility consumption” (space) and new temporal urban rhythms (time). To this end, short-term and responsive planning becomes a crucial opportunity to enable rapidly deployed responses, through an extensive use of new analytical tools based on Open and Big data analytics and computer-based simulations.http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/6857mobilityresilient infrastructurepublic spacedata analytics
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Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
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resilient infrastructure
public space
data analytics
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Giovanna Fossa
Andrea Gorrini
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title Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
title_short Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
title_full Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
title_fullStr Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
title_full_unstemmed Shaping space for ever-changing mobility. Covid-19 lesson learned from Milan and its region
title_sort shaping space for ever-changing mobility. covid-19 lesson learned from milan and its region
publisher Università di Napoli Federico II
series TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
issn 1970-9889
1970-9870
publishDate 2020-06-01
description In the Milan experience, Covid-19 emergency crucial issues were already hidden weaknesses of the city and its region: the limited capacity of transit transport, roads and public spaces, with crowding problems for both work and leisure. The challenge is to regenerate the competitive “human measure” of Milan, based on its unique relationship between public spaces and mobility, overcoming its health risk. The report raises a question on the established transit-oriented development approach, focusing on spaces “in between” and not only on nodes and networks. The traditional “invariants” welcome changes: the spatial structure of the public realm becomes a platform for ever-changing mobility and services, providing quality of life for communities, users and tourists. With this respect, streets represent by far the most strategic asset of the urban public realm. They can be reshaped in resilient infrastructure capable to respond to new forms of mobility based on a renewed Mobility-as-A-Service paradigm, as final result of different travel behaviors of the post pandemic scenario, among which an expected reduction of the overall “mobility consumption” (space) and new temporal urban rhythms (time). To this end, short-term and responsive planning becomes a crucial opportunity to enable rapidly deployed responses, through an extensive use of new analytical tools based on Open and Big data analytics and computer-based simulations.
topic mobility
resilient infrastructure
public space
data analytics
url http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/6857
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