Alessandro Bianchi, Domenico Passarelli, Bruno Placidi, Fedinando Verardi

Stefano Aragona

Modern times confront us with dramatic facts. Nature is rebelling against man, cities are imploding, and social degradation is reaching very high levels. Today urban regeneration is not enough, and deep regeneration is needed. Traffic congestion, pollution, construction speculation, energy waste, lack of security, waste, and the loss of the urbis form, are among the most common problems of today's cities, and only the planning of targeted and wise procedures can allow us to solve these problems.
Training, research, and environment are the three key words through which the rebirth of the country and economic recovery can take place and are the three foundations on which Pegaso Telematic Universities' school of "Urban and Environmental Regeneration" are based. Pegaso Telematic University school of Urban and Environmental Regeneration was established with the aim of training scholars, specialists, professionals, and technical operators in the fields of project, planning, and management actions related to the intervention on cities, the environment, and the territory, with detailed attention to the issues of sustainability and regeneration.
The school offers a wide and diversified education to allow the acquisition and use of methods, techniques and instruments at different levels of competence and specialization, in relation to the specific needs of the participants: High school graduates who are not yet enrolled in university courses; students already attending courses of study; under graduates; and graduate students.
The school is more than just an important educational opportunity: the teachers themselves - academics and professionals - together with the graduates from the Masters' program share a series of articulated skills that are made available to public institutions, starting with local institutions, in order to begin good regeneration practices, such as those that are already operational in some Italian communities.
Cosenza participates in a program that puts on the internet many specific experiences of regeneration, both already realized and in progress.
Crotone, where the school has a regeneration project in the area of ancient Crotone and disused industrial wastelands.
Montepulciano, where the school uses joint research with the local administration to revive tourism and limit ecological impact on the city.
In conclusion, the school website also has an important role by informing and training the population and serves as a venue that all interested parties can use to present their experiences, compare their observations, and exchange common know-how.

Stefano Aragona (p)

Carlo Peraboni

Territory and modern city have developed according to the needs and criteria of localization and thanks to high efficiency technologies and materials. But both are not "static", that is they are linked to the change of space, to climate changes and to the duration of the materials.
The paper addresses these problems, needs and opportunities to underline the importance of ordinary, but above all extraordinary, maintenance of the existing city and of the infrastructures that, over time, have designed and organized the territory. The recent tragic events in Genoa, Italy, with the collapse of the Morandi bridge, show how this, beyond any legal responsibility, is indispensable.
Since 1972, with The Limits to Growth, the exhaustion of the paradigm has been highlighted - using, metaphorically, the term referred by Khun (1962) to the scientific revolutions - of the industrial city and, after decades of expansion, the western industrialized city has long stopped this trend.
Given the mentioned limits of the industrial city, all this represents a potential advantage, an opportunity in terms of environmental and social sustainability. To manage, with care and attention, the landscape - result of the relationship between man and nature (Florence Landscape Convention, 2000) - place of historical, social, urban and architectural values of territories and cities, morphology, infrastructures, building typologies, is a big chance. New opportunities for quality of life, territorial and urban resilience and sustainability come from green and water: huge, but also problematic, resources, taking into account current climate change too.
It is necessary to avoid the threat that all this is guided by economic powers and forces, indifferent both to the local context and to the wellbeing of the inhabitants, and to the increase of various types of risks.
Examples will be highlighted showing how territorial and urban policies can produce different development scenarios using an integrated ecological approach. In this way it is possible to improve infrastructure security, the condition of existing material heritage and quality of life.

Bibliographic references
Khun, T. S. (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago University Press, Chicago
Meadows, D.L. (et al.) (1972), The Limits to Growth, Universe Books, New York
Ue, (2000), European Landscape Convention, Florence

Antonino Capillo (p), Alessandro Mancini, Davide Giorgi, Luigi Anniballi, Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli

Stefano Aragona

Territorial and urban and regeneration is a recurrent theme, especially with regard to ecological transformation, as a reaction to climate change. Complex impacts on cities and rural areas ecosystems come from global warming therefore, effective counter-measures are necessary to address such issues. External stresses put great pressure on urban and suburban frameworks. Thus, Institutions, communities, private actors and even inhabitants are involved in hard challenges with the aim of improving the resilience of their own realities. In this work, a case study about climate change resilience for Tuscany Region (Italy) is presented. The “LIFE for Silver Coast” European Project realizes a Sustainable Mobility System in the famous area, known as the “Silver Coast”. The Project will contribute to improve the territorial resilience, in different ways. Relying on Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) and thanks to the full electric vehicles of its fleet, the “LIFE for Silver Coast” will have a direct impact on climate change mitigation, because of significant CO2 emissions reduction. This result will represent a strong preventing countermove to climate changes. The control over the environmental effects is a very remarkable aspect. The monitoring activities (through several monitoring stations) and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies will contribute to generate consciousness about the system responses to climate change stresses, which is a crucial aspect for resilience improvement. This way, effective and efficient reactions will come from the ecosystem, thanks to an accurate action planning, based on acquired knowledge. Moreover, the “LIFE for Silver Coast” will increase resilience, making the social-economic system more stable. New business opportunities for stakeholders will lead to more jobs and local communities and Institutions will work together, in a synergic network. It will be possible to reach a common consciousness about the territorial ecosystem by exchanging information and solutions to continuously increase performance and benefits. This distributed knowledge and know-how will act as an elastic tissue for external excitations adsorption, in case of sporadic punctual failures. The inner innovation and synergic organization of the “LIFE for Silver Coast” Mobility System will be powerful enough to strengthen the resilience of the whole area of interest, not only with regard of climate change effects.