Redefining strategies for a mobility based resilience in metropolitan cities

In the controversial present season, polycentric settlements and metropolitan cities should be identified as the privileged domain for rethinking plans, programs, and projects useful to manage the community health issues looking at specific problems such as the correlation between settlement densities and public transportation or the pathological rise of structural inequalities at social and economic level. According to the emerging principles in the scientific-disciplinary debate, despite the persistent crisis, this condition represents the trigger to speed up processes of urban regeneration requiring an integrated approach to urban and metropolitan planning and mobility, in order to create the conditions for more inclusive, green and resilient cities, mostly aiming at proximity displacements, non-polluting active mobility, flexible and inclusive public spaces. Are local administrations proving to be equipped to manage conditions and opportunities suddenly opened up by the crisis and design virtuous scenarios of transformation? Ideas and initiatives paint a multicolour landscape and reveal the pendulum between many tactical, pop-up initiatives and rare strategic scenarios. Urban and metropolitan actors are called to face a terrific challenge: issues at stake are relevant and the cultural ‘dna’ of mobility styles, more or less sensitive to sustainable displacements, is making the difference even in emergency contingencies.