Il verde pubblico nel nuovo contesto urbano post-pandemico

Abstract

The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic forces, among other things, cities to change their traditional approach to emergency regimes. Crisis phenomena – no longer only economic, but also health and environmental – now represent a reality to which to deal daily with, a reality that poses unprecedented demands, to which adequate responses must be provided. In this context, physical distancing, which implies spatial distance, requires, first of all, a revision of the ways of living on a collective level, and this is the reason why one of the forms in which urban resilience will have to manifest itself will be the ability to reorganize the use of public space, to simultaneously guarantee collective enjoyment and safeguard the necessary distancing measures. That said, the paper aims to investigate the critical issues that today characterize the management of the place par excellence in which this challenge becomes vital, that is the public green space (equipped public green, urban green, extra- urban green and neighborhood green). In particular, the study – in questioning the continuing relevance of the purely quantitative model referred to in the Ministerial Decree n. 1444/1968 – questions the possible ways of reconciling the (divergent) needs of the collective use of green areas, on the one hand, and the satisfaction of social distancing objectives, on the other; as well as, more generally, on the possible identification of a sustainable and effective regulatory model capable of enhancing the centrality of the role that green areas are destined to play in the contemporary resilient city.