Is it possible to imagine a city without cars, more on a human scale, conceived in a different way through urban planning choices regarding mobility and the allocation of spaces to people? Of course, it has been done in other cities around the world, even in contexts that are urbanistically compatible with the layout of the city of Reggio Calabria. Salvador Rueda, Spanish urban ecologist, president of the Fundación Ecología Urbana y Territorial and founder of the Agencia de Ecología Urbana de Barcelona, which he directed from 2000 to 2020, is convinced of this. He is among the experts involved by the Municipality in the drafting of the “Reggio Calabria Masterplan” which in recent days has started the process of participatory activities of the Plan for urban accessibility, public space and active mobility, of the General Urban Traffic Plan (Pgtu) and the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (Paesc). At the meeting at Palazzo San Giorgio – promoted by the Sustainable and Accessible City department and by the Urban Planning sector – together with Rueda were present the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà, the councilor Paolo Malara, the manager Ida Albanese and the engineer Francis Cirianni for the Pgtu.
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