Sustainable urban planning is the key to improving the quality of life in cities, including in Cagliari and its vast area. This is the message launched by Salvador Rueda, visionary Catalan urban planner and creator of the green urban revolution in Barcelona, during the conference "Manifesto for ecosystem planning of cities and metropolises. Guiding principles for ecosystem planning and tools for its implementation" , organized by the Metropolitan City of Cagliari this morning at Palazzo Regio.

Rueda, who heads the Barcelona Urban Ecology Foundation and was recently in charge of coordinating the National Urban Ecology Agenda for the main cities of Spain, illustrated his sustainable urban model of the "super -isolated ", successfully tested in Barcelona.

The idea behind the super-block (superilla in Catalan) is to "create self-sufficient urban cells in which pedestrians have priority, and the circulation of cars is limited to the roads that delimit the boundaries of the super-blocks, guaranteeing same space for homes and work activities and promoting the energy self-sufficiency of buildings - reads a note -. The super-isolated spaces would also free up a large part of the space currently occupied by vehicles in transit or parked and create new green meeting spaces for citizens, with a consequent improvement in the quality of life and social cohesion ".

The discussion with the urban planner, organized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Sassari as part of the construction process of the Agenda for the Sustainable Development of the Metropolitan City, took place a few days after the presentation of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan, in which sustainable planning plays a crucial role. "The sustainable development of our vast area is a theme that involves not only all sectors of the institution, but opens up to the municipalities of the territory and to other subjects who are pursuing similar paths at national and international level", explained the director. general of the Stefano Mameli body.

"Sustainable urban planning is also an epochal challenge for the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, which focuses first of all on mobility, through the strengthening of local public transport, and on the implementation of urban green spaces", underlined the mayor of Cagliari Paolo Truzzu , recalling the projects already underway for the reforestation of the area of via San Paolo, the redevelopment of viale Buoncammino, viale Trieste and via Roma, and the metropolitan green ring envisaged by the Strategic Plan. "We need to rethink the spaces to make our cities more liveable by putting the citizen at the center - added the metropolitan councilor delegated to planning Umberto Ticca - also because a great season of public investments awaits us and offers us the possibility to concretely realize this transformation, if we will be able to draw up adequate urban and social development plans ".

(Unioneonline / D)

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