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A GREEN, INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE PROJECT IN THE NOVOLI DISTRICT, FLORENCE
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CONTEXTUALIZATION and FEATURES OF THE PROJECT
At the beginning of 2019 , as part of a participatory research and meta-project work , a qualitative multiple-choice survey was launched on the Public Green in the Novoli district in Florence, based on the 2030 Agenda : a calendar of activities , respected by all countries in order to improve the environment and contain Climate Change. Novoli’s research used in particular three types of shared and weighted indicators:
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, SDG’s;
The one of the European Fund for Regional Development (FESR);
The Indicators on the Common Goods suggested by the inhabitants.
The stakeholders are: the Research Unit PPcP (landscape, cultural heritage, design) , the ' Cultural Association " Novoli Common Good" and the City of Florence .
So this is a project with characteristics of co-design among stakeholders mentioned, whose aims and main themes are: to promote a Metaproject Inclusive, through a participatory activity on three main aspects :
- Public green , urban forest and agroforestry ;
- The future of the Central Market Area (Mercafir) ;
- Enhancement of cultural aspects (Application in the neighborhood of the “Uffizi spread across the territory” project;
- The lighting of the “orphan” streets of Novoli , that is, completely degraded private streets for public use. Streets " Pedibus ", pedestrian paths that connect the various schools in the neighborhood.
The urban landscape project " The METAPROJECT OF GREEN AND MICROREALIZATION OF A SMALL PARK" defined by the project team in 2020, includes two main aspects:
The GREEN META-PROJECT that involves, Novoli of about 25,000 inhabitants, part of the north area of Florence City, and outlines the characteristics of Green Infrastructures District seen as a major component for the actual recovery of a new local identity of the inhabitants;
MICRO-REALIZATION OF A SMALL PARK A Micro project -to build now with Municipality and regional funds- of a park overlooking the main avenue of access to the District and that links together many SDG’s : the theme of integral urban green the contrast to effects of climatic change, the recovery of urban identity of the inhabitants, the inclusion, and sustainable linkages with the recovery of the livability and energy saving ( with the intelligent lighting) of some of the so-called orphan streets in the neighborhood.