In its medium-small dimension, with its fan-like form resting along the edge of the sea and the strong impact of its valley’s orography, the conurbation of Pescara presents the same difficulties in governing transport as an urbanised territory of much greater dimensions. Even here expansion, followed by sprawling development, was accompanied by a significant change in the direction of flows of traffic, passing from a system gravitating around a periphery-centreperiphery to another that, without negating the first, was witness to a rapidly progressive increase in the importance of transversal movements and the fragmentation of traffic flows. The centre-periphery model was overlapped by the periphery-periphery, though without a clear hierarchisation of preferential paths, and above all with a degree of variability that further complicates the situation. The fundamental role of a correct policy for transport is that of guaranteeing people the right to access the opportunities offered by the social system: employment, study, commerce, recreation, culture, etc. In the case study of Pescara it was also necessary to consider the resolution of a landscape node: the high-speed artery runs atop an earth berm; atop what is above all a visual barrier, and not necessary for protecting against possible flooding; we imagined the possibility of creating a new interchange in the most favourable position for accessing (in and out) the site. The interchange is located in the space that unites our eco-neighbourhood with the high-speed artery, also the point where the new settlement connects with the riverbed. In short, a problematic position because this portion of the site is destined to fulfil diverse functions, all of great importance; in fact, even the relationship with the river is anything but secondary to a design proposal inspired by criteria of elevated sustainability; a highly privileged condition if we consider that the neighbourhood’s slow paths can be perfectly integrated with those in the river park and that, what is more, the easy relationship with the riverbed may become a characterising element for the further valorisation of this new settlement.
VERSO UNA MOBILITÀ SOSTENIBILE - Towards sustanaible transport
ZAZZARA, Lucio
2010-01-01
Abstract
In its medium-small dimension, with its fan-like form resting along the edge of the sea and the strong impact of its valley’s orography, the conurbation of Pescara presents the same difficulties in governing transport as an urbanised territory of much greater dimensions. Even here expansion, followed by sprawling development, was accompanied by a significant change in the direction of flows of traffic, passing from a system gravitating around a periphery-centreperiphery to another that, without negating the first, was witness to a rapidly progressive increase in the importance of transversal movements and the fragmentation of traffic flows. The centre-periphery model was overlapped by the periphery-periphery, though without a clear hierarchisation of preferential paths, and above all with a degree of variability that further complicates the situation. The fundamental role of a correct policy for transport is that of guaranteeing people the right to access the opportunities offered by the social system: employment, study, commerce, recreation, culture, etc. In the case study of Pescara it was also necessary to consider the resolution of a landscape node: the high-speed artery runs atop an earth berm; atop what is above all a visual barrier, and not necessary for protecting against possible flooding; we imagined the possibility of creating a new interchange in the most favourable position for accessing (in and out) the site. The interchange is located in the space that unites our eco-neighbourhood with the high-speed artery, also the point where the new settlement connects with the riverbed. In short, a problematic position because this portion of the site is destined to fulfil diverse functions, all of great importance; in fact, even the relationship with the river is anything but secondary to a design proposal inspired by criteria of elevated sustainability; a highly privileged condition if we consider that the neighbourhood’s slow paths can be perfectly integrated with those in the river park and that, what is more, the easy relationship with the riverbed may become a characterising element for the further valorisation of this new settlement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
