Oltre il futuro: emergenze, rischi, sfide, transizioni, opportunità // Beyond the future: emergencies, risks, challenges, transitions, and opportunities

The Covid-19 emergency, albeit in different ways and measures, is changing habits and use of places and cities globally. In many cities, public spaces have become completely empty for months and new urban landscapes have replaced the old ones, transforming the private into the public. Their reopening took place after months of closure, allowing again "live" social interactions, while respecting the physical distance, confirming the importance for all the people of these places. At the same time, in contemporary territories it is increasingly happening that different types of crises occur simultaneously, making the resolution of difficult urban conditions complex as the different risks overlap, involving social, economic, environmental, health and liveability issues. Furthermore, every place is different and has its own peculiarities, thus requiring different times and methods to deal with crises, just as the risks are also different from each other, requiring a different resilience. To achieve sustainable adaptation and regeneration of places affected by multiple risks, in accordance with the principles of the New Urban Agenda of Quito 2016 and the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda, it is important to address and communicate these issues from many and integrated points of view. If on the one hand, therefore, the challenges that are emerging in this scenario require more integrated and flexible interventions, on the other hand it is necessary to identify the different interrelations between the disciplines in this transition phase in order to be able to propose, beyond the future, new and more adequate forms and tools for the territorial project. The Inu Study Day intends to tackle these issues by capturing not only emergencies, risks, challenges, transitions, but also, in perspective - beyond the future in fact -, opportunities. To discuss these issues, the Study Day identified 16 main issues that make up the parallel sessions: Post-pandemic cities: new subjects, management, opportunities, futures of contemporary spaces; Risks: resilience, adaptation, climate challenges and green solutions; Sustainability: Agendas, Sustainable Goals, principles, regulations, assessments and regulations; Recovery Plans: projects and programs between opportunities and risks; Flexibility: design and plan unpredictability; Between social and environmental fragility: which spaces for urban planning ?; Mixed infrastructures: green, blue, gray, new overlaps and ecological transition; Natural capital: sustainable defense, use, enhancement, management; Regeneration and public spaces: new needs for urban liveability and healthiness; Post-disaster reconstruction: integrated planning, new techniques and technologies, social rebalancing; 360 ° accessibility: integrated mobility, social inclusion, multi-scaling and interactive technologies; Cultural Heritage: historic centers, enhancement and new ways of using them; Tourism: new needs, new destinations and ways of visiting; New technologies for the territory: networks, smart cities, artificial intelligence, robots, drones; Ecopolies and Ecoregions: visions, models and policies, for cities and territories, beyond global crises; Teaching urban planning: new methods and directions. These issues, as can be read from the articles that follow, will be presented with a particular look at current issues, paying attention to the challenges that contemporary territories are posing to scholars, but also to administrators, professionals, citizens. Special sessions and round tables are added to the scheduled sessions; if the former, as will be seen from the contributions published in this issue, are intended to further specify the themes proposed by the topic of the Study Day, the round tables propose questions to ask and issues to discuss. Multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of the issues will be factors that can be deduced from the authors of the articles that include not only urban planners, but also architects, historians, economists, jurists, environmentalists. The outcomes of the overall debate that will emerge from the various sessions and round tables during the Conference, as well as the keynote speakers - Janet Askew, President of ECTP-CEU, Simin Davoudi, Professor of Town Planning, Newcastle University, and Gert De Roo, Head of the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Groningen, will be published in a post-conference book to give back to the INU community and to all those interested in various ways in urban planning issues a broad contribution to the debate on particularly current issues.