Towards bicycle infrascapes. Active mobility as an opportunity for urban regeneration and open space redesign

With mounting urban challenges such as climate change, pollution, traffic congestion, and sedentary lifestyles, cities worldwide are rethinking their policies, and two concepts are at the forefront of this transformation: active mobility and green infrastructure. Active mobility prioritizes modes of transportation like walking, cycling, and using micro-mobility solutions (e-scooters, e-bikes), while green infrastructure strategically integrates natural elements into the urban fabric. Remarkably, when active mobility and green infrastructure are coupled, the impacts become amplified, offering a powerful solution to create more liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. With a particular focus on diversified greening trajectories for cities, this contribution wants to trace a comparative exploration in the frame of Bicycle Infrascapes research developed by the GICLab of Genoa University, aimed at defining a framework of international urban design and landscape projects where the notion of green infrastructure become multi-fold especially when connected to the reorganisation of mobility patterns and open space re-design.