New approaches toward a Sustainable Urban Mobility. Accessible, integrated and regenerative transport systems

Since the 20th century, the solutions offered by planners, utopists and architects to address people’s mobility issues and manage traffic were predominantly concerned with the main symptom of traffic, the ‘car’, neglecting to consider the actual disease, which was ‘unlivable and alienating cities’. For the past two centuries many architects, planners, and politicians dealing with mobility and transport attempted to offer solutions based on spatial differentiation of transportation means and on infrastructural layering, separating the realm for cars, public transportation and pedestrians. This article intends to offer a new way of approaching transport issues, reviewing and exploring strategies to endorse soft mobility, and an accessible, integrated and regenerative transport network.