Keywords

• The contemporary big city is the scene of the crisis which is now pushing western economies. The crisis concerns three dimensions
• mainly: environmental
• societal (in terms of an increasing divide between rich and poor) and mobility (in terms of generalized inaccessibility to places
• as a form of spatial injustice). As any crisis
• even the present one entails a spatial and/or technological reorganization of production
• new social relations and geopolitical assets. As such
• its outcomes on the urbanization of the planet and the whole welfare system in metropolitan areas are massive. In this framework
• the article deals with the project of the city and the territory
• focusing on some possible ways-out from the crisis in terms of a new status of urban planning and design. The concepts of isotropy
• porosity
• permeability
• connectivity and accessibility are put into play
• to counteract urban fragmentation due to big infrastructures
• to guarantee accessibility as a right to the city
• to reclaim a radically different culture of movement and mobility in a highly dispersed metropolitan perspective
• to support mobility not just of people and goods
• but of all species (human
• animal and vegetable) in a sustainable perspective