The weapons of the city against pandemic assaults

Keywords: Seismic risk and pandemic risk, Flexible, unstable, insecure cities, Symbiosis between centralized and widespread settlements

Abstract

The cyclical spread of the pandemic requires a modification of the urban and territorial planning tools and a national anti-pandemic urban and territorial plan. The objective of the paper is to present some proposals for the protection from Covid risk, with a flexible reorganization of the times, spaces of the city and the territory. The working methodology consists in the revision of procedures for the protection from seismic risks and their expansion and complexification for the protection from pandemic risk. Some summary results of the study, currently being completed, concern suggestions for the search for a symbiosis between the city of concentration, peripheralization and diffusion with the introduction of flexible, temporary and uncertain uses. But the possibility of reducing socio-spatial inequalities in cities, regions and the country can only be pursued in the context of European funding from the Recovery Plan. The conclusions show that, with the recurrence of "mutant" pandemics, the city abandons the certainty of a continuity, in alternating phases, of development, the stability of uses and times of use of the urban space, favored by the permanence of habits and forms of consolidated life, and it will become a transforming city, a two-faced city.

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Author Biographies

Maria Angela Bedini, Polytechnic University of Marche

Associate Professor of Urban and Territorial Planning at the Department Simau, Faculty of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche where she teaches Urban Planning Technique and Urban Recovery. She has published numerous studies on Italian Urban Plans, City, Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake regeneration of territories in crisis, New Territories of Urban Planning. 

Fabio Bronzini, Polytechnic University of Marche

Full Professor out of role of Urban and Territorial Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche. He has published numerous articles in international journals on Innovative strategies and tools for risk protection areas in crisis and volumes, in several languages, on the beauty of the city and the territory. 

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Published
2022-12-30
How to Cite
BediniM. A., & BronziniF. (2022). The weapons of the city against pandemic assaults. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 15(3), 533-542. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/8886