ABSTRACT

A virtuous process has been started in many European cities to construct sustainable cycling-pedestrian mobility networks, in order to establish a reciprocal contamination of uses and functions between public urban spaces, the production landscape and the many diffuse excellences of the territory (nature reserves, historical-architectural buildings and monuments, diffuse tourist facilities).

The new light infrastructural frames may constitute a territorial reinforcement, around which projects may be created to regenerate urban peripheral areas, agricultural production areas for social use, new urban services and new social-economic drivers through programmes for tourist-cultural improvement, activating contamination and unprecedented territorial relations between the production landscape and territorial excellences.

This paper will define the methodological and project guidelines to plan light cycling-pedestrian infrastructures for the city and territory by describing one project currently underway in Marche Region.