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Table 6: Actions to support sustainable Paolo VI district planning, design and development
Category
Plan Actions
Street Infrastructure 1. Creation of a new train station with intermodal exchange( convergence of railway, light underground, Circum Mar Piccolo road and beginning of district walk and cycle paths with bike sharing exchange) in contrada Torre Rossa( by the current shopping centre), as a new urban gate to the district.
2. Redesign of the bus lines. Two new lines can connect Paolo VI district to the town centre and a third one, internal, serving exclusively the district with the last stop at the Hospital and Shopping Centre. The latter would include a series of intermediate stops, 300m away on average.
3. Redesign of the cycle paths and routes with rest areas for bike sharing.
Urban design
4. Requalification of waste lands internal to the district( creation of equipped parks and urban gardens) and those in the proximity of the University Pole( greenhouses and ecogardens with nursery of herbal species for the preservation of biodiversity).
5. Promotion of“ agriculture of proximity” systems that would favour the management and maintenance of agricultural areas and develop a commercial network of local zero kilometres product as an alternative market that could flank, without any competition, the shopping centre.
6. Retrieval of the environmental system adjacent to Paolo VI district, and facing the Shopping Centre( characterised by the presence of farm lands, archaeological areas and the environmental system of a river) as equipped environmental park.
7. Retrieval and reconversion of the dismissed PIP area for the realisation of laboratories, areas for experimentation and business incubators for the university.
8. Thickening of the settlement fabric( residential and specialist) also with buildings dedicated to the students hospitality( student houses, student centre,..); with the use of low density and finegrain housing types( e. g. terraced) to solve the urban discontinuities, reshape the urban roads( main roads, secondary and virtual axes), reduce the size of the open spaces,…
9. The racecourse is served by SS 77. It is desirable that this resource is made accessible also to the residents of Paolo VI district. Hence the necessity to create a new road system that connects the racecourse with the new sport centre( CUS) creating an infrastructural axis for sport and leisure activities in the green.
Building design
10. Transformation of the current campus( branch of the Polytechnic of Bari) and creation of a GREEN CAMPUS.
11. Creation, in the waste lands surrounding the current campus, of structures with low environmental and energetic impact formally identitarian as: Colleges and student residences for offsite university students and visiting professors; An equipped park with refreshment points; A sport centre; A multifunctional cultural centre;
12. Promotion and creation of leisure activities and structures( cinema, disco pub,...) in the proximity of the shopping centre. The choice of this kind of attractions arises from the necessity of reactivating the area of the shopping centre also during evening and night hours.
The university campus as experimental laboratory
From the context analysis previously indicated it is possible to define a strategy of design intervention that reviews and reinforce the collocation of the new Taranto’ s University Center so to achieve strategic objectives on different scale:
• on district scale, for what regards the social and spatial regeneration of Paolo VI, its distributive and energetic efficiency, and its relationship with the town;
• on metropolitan scale, for what concerns the service provided to the extended territory and the rational employment of the connections and the opportunities offered for the business development of the surrounding local contexts;
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