Urban Motorways Demolition: Changing Impact On The City
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Free (open access)
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Volume
36
Pages
14
Published
1998
Size
1,668 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT980541
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
E. Musso, A. Gazzola & C. Ferrari
Abstract
The paper's aim is to evaluate the impact of an urban motorway infrastructure on the city of Genoa, its shape and its socio-economic system, focusing on the project of its demolition and the contextual, supposed, implementation of an undersea tunnel across the historical harbour docks of the city [1]. 1 The impact of the elimination of an urban transport infrastructure The layout of the transport infrastructures within a local system always influences its economic and social development. This is all the more so in an urban or metropolitan context in which the city transport system is the essential element conditioning the exploitation of urbanisation economies on the part of both businesses and individuals. Urban situation rents are also heavily influenc
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