Regenerating Cities with Blue and Green Networks. Inspirational Models and Rome Potential

The debate on sustainable and resilient cities has fostered the attention of urban planning on the environment and landscape issues, both in terms of defence and preservation of the natural resources, and in terms of urban regeneration strategies. Pursuing these issues requires to combine two separate disciplinary goals. The first concerns the reconfiguration of public spaces, the strengthening of infrastructure system and the revitalization of urban fabrics. The second one concerns the promotion of biodiversity, the implementation of ecosystem services and the management of natural cycles and risk. To this end, the paper highlight most advanced fronts of debate and experimentation that identify strategies, either integrated, to a physical-morphological reconfiguration, a socio-economic and cultural revitalization and an environmental regeneration; or multiscalar, to coordinate design and planning through different levels; or cooperative and partnership-based, to combine top-down and bottom-up practices.