Elevating urban mobility
In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright anticipated the concepts of urban air mobility with his sketches of Broadacre City, introducing the idea of air corridors traversed by “aerotors” (Wright, 1935:…
From an urban rail fringe to a centrality for a véloterritory
The recovery of cycling mobility as a major mobility agent requires the claim for open spaces that operate as urban and regional connections for cyclists. Nevertheless, adapting an infrastructural mar…
From Ground to Air
This research explores how architectural design can support the integration of vertiports—key nodes in the emerging Innovative Air Mobility (IAM) network—within the existing urban environment. Address…
In the puzzle of mobility innovation, the design is the swinging factor
Mobility is not only the sum of technology and cost analysis, but also of spatial practices linked to land-use, accessibility, and mobility design (Eckart & Vockler, 2023). As a consequence, innov…
Logistics and territory along SS434 highway
The issue arises from a question: how can logistics coexist with territories in rural areas? The landscape crossed by the SS434 motorway, which connects Verona and Rovigo, is under a deep transformati…
Mobility corridors as interfaces between movement and place
More than ten years ago, a series of small grassroots actions managed to bring the river Someș closer to the residents of Cluj-Napoca. What started with several protests, mainly concerning green space…
The Constructed Void
Within one of Porto’s most intensely contested centralities, a residual void persists, caught between infrastructural retreat and speculative projection. Once defined by the surface terminus of the Pó…
The potential revolution of autonomous driving for Urban Regeneration
The legacy of an urban design led by the infrastructural project, which precluded the use of urban space as a relational place, is reflected today in settlements interrupted in their physical and soci…
Unfolding New Mobilities
Infrastructure shapes the landscapes we inhabit: roads, highways, railways, and airports allow people to travel for work or pleasure by car, train, and plane. Not only large-scale infrastructure, but …
Walking in the city as knowledge and appropriation
Today technology helps bodies move around and are filters producing images of urban space based on social media subjective narratives, cancelling the body’s own experience and provoking space di…