Sustainable Strategic Mobility Plans Towards the Resilient Metropolis

Recent times see cities at the forefront in the fight against the pandemic in the framework of the harmful effects of climate change and urban inequalities issues. This territorial and urban condition is emphasizing the need for a ‘holistic’ approach to urban resilience and the importance to focus on sustainable mobility policies and planning towards green and inclusive metropolises. The main goal of this paper is to investigate and highlight innovative approaches in European Sustainable Mobility Plans, aimed at overcoming the sectoral critical aspects within a metropolitan resilience perspective. Bologna represents a paradigmatic case of a sustainable metropolitan area with new plans based on resilience, cohesion, connectivity. Starting from the concept of ‘new urbanity’ to be recognized as “the reciprocal adaptation of urban fabric morphology and conviviality form” in the contemporary metropolitan city, findings and lessons are expected to be useful to extract relevant suggestions for the specific interpretation styles of resilience in planned strategies and specific projects to be applied, notably, in the European context.