City and landscape: Altamura

The vision for the future development and urban redevelopment of the Trentacapilli district is to create a "Neighbourhood-Garden City" through a strategy of connections inside and outside the district, of enhancing and increasing the public green areas to form a park spread over the entire intervention area that through "Greenways" (a system of green infrastructures) connects the district on the one hand to the surrounding Murgia landscape, which, representing one of the most characteristic and highly valued landscapes of Apulia, connotes and restores identity to the urban spaces, while on the other hand, through the redevelopment of the urban grid to the consolidated city. The "Greenways" connecting the district to the "Campagna Murgiana" and to the consolidated city represent green infrastructures for the protection and enhancement of biodiversity and are represented by the reforestation and redevelopment of the existing roads which, through the planned interventions, become urban landscape directories in the "Resilience Matrix" strategy through which the landscape penetrates and crosses the district, revitalising life within it and increasing the general urban and landscape quality. The concept of 'Greenways' as a system of interconnected linear territories goes beyond the meaning of a simple bicycle path, with which it is often confused, investing in more structural aspects, such as the valorisation and redevelopment of natural resources, the promotion of sustainable development, the recovery of degraded landscapes and the harmonious development of cities, and is addressed not only to cyclists but to all non-motorised users, able to connect populations with the resources of the territory with the 'life centres' of urban settlements in the city and rural areas.