City and landscape: Altamura

City and landscape:
the neighborhood turns into park

Typology
Urban redevelopment

Place
Altamura-Italy

Year
2023

Team
Corsaro Architetti (group leader), Arch. Marilena Baggio – Studio Greencure, Ing. Luigi Talò, Arch. Mario Luigi Antonio Martello, Geologo Martino Scarafile, Archeologo Christian Napolitano, Ing. Lucio Lisanti – 3DLife

The vision for the future development and urban redevelopment of the Trentacapilli neighborhood is to achieve a “Neighborhood-Garden City” through a strategy of internal and external connections to the neighborhood, of enhancement and increase of public green areas to form a park spread over the entire area of intervention that through “Greenways” (green infrastructure system) connects the neighborhood on the one hand to the surrounding Murgia landscape, which representing one of the most characteristic contexts and with high landscape value of Puglia connotes and restores identity to urban spaces, while on the other hand through the redevelopment of the urban mesh to the consolidated city. The “Greenways” linking the neighborhood to the “Campagna Murgiana” and to the consolidated city represent green infrastructures of protection and enhancement of biodiversity and are represented by the forestation and redevelopment of existing roads that through the planned interventions become urban landscape directories in the strategy of “Resilience Matrices” through which the landscape penetrates and crosses the neighborhood revitalizing the 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 more structural aspects, such as the enhancement and redevelopment of natural resources, the promotion of sustainable development, the recovery of degraded landscapes and the harmonious development of cities, and is aimed not only at cyclists but at all non-motorized users, capable of connecting people with land resources with the “life centers” of urban settlements in the city and rural areas.