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To date, the administration has launched a series of initiatives aimed at urban
regeneration (buildings and public areas), as well as at economic and social improvement, summarized as follows:
– new urban-building rules;
– coordinated project for public space: the Village has its only public spaces in the
streets, which have a very small section, are anonymous and not suitable for a
non-automotive mobility. Through simulations and sectorial studies various
options were examined for the transformation of the road network aimed to interconnect pedestrian, bicycle and automobile paths and to facilitate public accessibility and therefore the settlement of business and services.
– to exploit the dis-used railroad area, to be reinvented as “gateways” to the
Village, as a large walk urban connecting two parts of the city historically
divided; the Village has indeed a well-defined urban morphology, which makes
it easy to identify, but it’s also “closed” to the rest of the city (Fig. 6.6).
Taking the modified environmental conditions of the area into consideration, the
redevelopment plan aims to promote measures envisaging high-level performances,
in order to ensure the environmental, as well as urban, upgrade of the area.
To counteract the alarming impact of UHI phenomenon the municipality of
Modena began to consider the main environmental problems, to identify effective
methods of construction.
Fig. 6.5 Villaggio Artigiano – Urban morphology
S. Zauli Sajani et al.
To date, the administration has launched a series of initiatives aimed at urban
regeneration (buildings and public areas), as well as at economic and social improvement, summarized as follows:
– new urban-building rules;
– coordinated project for public space: the Village has its only public spaces in the
streets, which have a very small section, are anonymous and not suitable for a
non-automotive mobility. Through simulations and sectorial studies various
options were examined for the transformation of the road network aimed to interconnect pedestrian, bicycle and automobile paths and to facilitate public accessibility and therefore the settlement of business and services.
– to exploit the dis-used railroad area, to be reinvented as “gateways” to the
Village, as a large walk urban connecting two parts of the city historically
divided; the Village has indeed a well-defined urban morphology, which makes
it easy to identify, but it’s also “closed” to the rest of the city (Fig. 6.6).
Taking the modified environmental conditions of the area into consideration, the
redevelopment plan aims to promote measures envisaging high-level performances,
in order to ensure the environmental, as well as urban, upgrade of the area.
To counteract the alarming impact of UHI phenomenon the municipality of
Modena began to consider the main environmental problems, to identify effective
methods of construction.
Fig. 6.5 Villaggio Artigiano – Urban morphology
S. Zauli Sajani et al.