THE SAFE CITY:THE ACERRA URBAN PARK “LO SPINIELLO”

In the town of Acerra it was created a green lung in the District Spiniello thanks to the project financed with the funds of the PIU Europa "The Safe City", whose objective was to adapt the pedestrian traffic, bicycle and vehicular Community rules, integrating it in public spaces equipped and green parks. The lines of action have been: 1. improvement in the safety and perception of road intersections and dangerous pedestrian crossings, through the modification of the structural and geometric characteristics of the roadways; 2. improvement of pedestrian and bicycle accessibility system, especially close to public places and the school complex, enhancing the quality of urban spaces and helping to increase the livability and safety of the territory; 3. discouraging private car use by improving the safety of pedestrian and bicycle mobility with particular reference to young people and the elderly often suffer in the use of roads; 4. improving the quality of urban public spaces by planting tall trees to reduce the urban heat island. The Spiniello area has been subject to considerable recent transformation from a place of thriving agricultural production in peripheral urban magma of the Neapolitan metropolis. The houses and buildings scattered in the fields of ancient farms and agricultural companies have sown the territory of urban fringes in contrast to the primary production system and not respecting the principles of the Land Evaluation with the indications of the best destinations of use of soils in relation to their intrinsic characteristics. With DOS and PIU Europe are being asked to improve the living conditions of citizens and chase the models and the quality of urban life even in places never born as a city that currently require an urban composition and architectural strategy beyond simply definition of public spaces and public equipment almost entirely absent. A city project complex and urban values articulated in new axles and new centers around which to recompose the urban scene and the identity of the community settled today.