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An Urban Infrastructure as Quality City Connector in a Multistakeholder Approach

Mastrolonardo, Luciana

The evolution toward sustainable mobility models must go on with the increase of the quality of public spaces in cities, as the European Green Deal clearly indicates. Response strategies must be integrated with respect to urban demand with a view to reducing emissions and vehicle traffic and increasing the safety of cities. In Pescara, an Adriatic city still lagging behind on these issues, urban planning and civil society policies have found a happy convergence of action. The multiscale projects on the Greenway along the Pescara River, an infrastructure with urban connections to be reconstructed and rediscovered, lay the foundations for concrete planning. It starts from a single objective and defines the strategies and actions of a series of stakeholders, within a more organic and complex picture. The joint actions are from the Municipality (through the Biciplan and the River contract), of civil society (through contemporary projects financed by national bodies working on street art and narrative and physical construction of the river ecomuseum Fluvia) and of companies based along the “infrastructure axis” (through high-level mobility management). The bottom-up joint actions, together with a strong programmatic push from city policy, can re-establish connections of soft mobility that reconnect the most distant suburbs of the urban fabric, to also reconstruct the relationship of the city with the river, historically separated from the equipped transport axis. No policy at the same time strongly desired by all the stakeholders can lead to reconnecting the greenway as an urban transport axis. Therefore, the unanimous and contemporaneity of the actions is the only way to give an answer to the problem of safe and dedicated connections, as the first step for the development of sustainable urban mobility.