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Valentina Orioli
Department of Architecture, University of Bologna.
Valentina Orioli, Department of Architecture – University of Bologna. Architect and PhD in Urban Planning, currently Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna. She is counselor at the Municipality of Bologna, in charge of New mobility, infrastructure, liveability and care of public space, enhancement of cultural heritage and Unesco Porticoes, Green Footprint Project and urban parks. In 2016-2021 served as a Counselor at the Municipality of Bologna, in charge of Urban Planning, Real Estate, Environment, Preservation and Renewal of the Historic City, Covenant for Climate and Nomination of “I Portici di Bologna” to Unesco WHL. In 2020-2021 she also served as Deputy Mayor.
Cities facing crises. Is Urban planning still a good tool for adaptation?
15.15 - 17.00 | Session 2: URBAN CRISES IN HISTORY
All cities in the course of their history have faced multiple crises, from health and environmental ones to wars and great economic-social transformations. The urbanization cycle of the nineteenth century can be read as a period in which new urban disciplines were born precisely to give answers to the multiple crises that accompanied cities' growth.
In particular, urban planning was born with the aim of formulating diagnoses and implementing suitable therapies to solve the "ills" of the city. The crises of contemporary cities are in many ways close to historical experience; however, their speed and continuous overlapping dilate the sense of uncertainty and amplify urban fragility.
Is planning still a good tool to face cities crises? The contribution problematizes this question in relation to contemporary planning debate.
