Universal design as resilient urban space plan strategy. New scenarios for environmental resources' sustainable management

Sonia Prestamburgo; Filippo Sgroi; Adriano Venudo; Carlo Zanin; Sonia Prestamburgo; Filippo Sgroi; Adriano Venudo; Carlo Zanin

doi:10.3934/environsci.2021021

AIMS Environmental Science

2021, Volume 8, Issue 4: 321-340. doi: 10.3934/environsci.2021021

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Universal design as resilient urban space plan strategy. New scenarios for environmental resources' sustainable management

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Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste 34127, Italy
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Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste 34127, Italy
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Community Welfare Area, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Palmanova, Udine 33100, Italy

Received: 03 June 2021 Accepted: 04 July 2021 Published: 15 July 2021

Nowadays, urban framework, stressed by the growing anthropic pressure and its constantly evolving use requests is split by uneven structures, contexts, users and patchy needs, which come out to be inefficient and ineffective in access and management. This fact is directly connected both with morph-functional structure of urban texture and its continuous changing trends. The most important consequences of this situation are some negative effects that produce entropy, mistaken anthropic space uses, ecological networks decrease and most of all a substantial urban life quality reduction connected with mobility problems and non-resilient spaces' use at the different plan scales. These elements make it necessary to restart thinking about environmental resources' sustainable use and management. Universal design comes out to be a useful tool related to urban space planning strategies in terms of resilient choices and actions. Design for all plan approach also represents a good solution for matching people needs to urban environmental quality improvement.

This idea is supported by the experience of a certain case study, that considers universal design application positive effects on open public space plan strategy in Oslo, together with an example of an active use of water to plan a sustainable public space in Rotterdam.
- universal design,
- urban context,
- plan strategy,
- resilience,
- environmental resources
Citation: Sonia Prestamburgo, Filippo Sgroi, Adriano Venudo, Carlo Zanin. Universal design as resilient urban space plan strategy. New scenarios for environmental resources' sustainable management[J]. AIMS Environmental Science, 2021, 8(4): 321-340. doi: 10.3934/environsci.2021021

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Abstract

Nowadays, urban framework, stressed by the growing anthropic pressure and its constantly evolving use requests is split by uneven structures, contexts, users and patchy needs, which come out to be inefficient and ineffective in access and management. This fact is directly connected both with morph-functional structure of urban texture and its continuous changing trends. The most important consequences of this situation are some negative effects that produce entropy, mistaken anthropic space uses, ecological networks decrease and most of all a substantial urban life quality reduction connected with mobility problems and non-resilient spaces' use at the different plan scales. These elements make it necessary to restart thinking about environmental resources' sustainable use and management. Universal design comes out to be a useful tool related to urban space planning strategies in terms of resilient choices and actions. Design for all plan approach also represents a good solution for matching people needs to urban environmental quality improvement.

This idea is supported by the experience of a certain case study, that considers universal design application positive effects on open public space plan strategy in Oslo, together with an example of an active use of water to plan a sustainable public space in Rotterdam.

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