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1179 | | Active aging and eco-smart cities | Luisa Carbone (1); Daniela La Foresta (2); Tony Urbani (3)

The session aims to investigate three areas which, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, have influenced the so-called “active ageing”, representing an important opportunity to understand the different forms of green sociality and to set up a sustainable technological urban culture oriented towards cohesion and inclusion.
In the Western European countries three-quarters of the elderly population live in cities, consequently the urban context emerges as one of the most important territorial areas, in which green resilience is a challenge to face.
This challenge requires the achievement of a balance between social and technological innovation, as well as the participation of the most fragile and vulnerable citizens through awareness-boosting activities of the urban info-scape.
In other words, the three factors of accessibility, safety, and livability of the urban environment, referring to the elderly, condition the sustainability of our cities.
The widespread awareness of environmental problems, the growing attention to the landscape transformations and the desire for naturalness are the basis of the topics of the session, which aims to rethink the management of urban spaces and their usability in terms of adaptation and mitigation of climate change and environmental crises.

Luisa Carbone (1); Daniela La Foresta (2); Tony Urbani (3)
(1) University of Tuscia, (2) University of Naples Federico II, (3) University of Tuscia

 
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1179 | 360 | Green art for urban decorum | Miriam Noto

Environmental protection is one of the essential areas of application for the design and maintenance of a Smart City. Particularly critical is atmospheric pollution resulting from the reduction of green spaces and, in particular, from the gases emitted by car traffic, which has an increasing number of vehicles circulating in the city. _x000D_
Therefore, new urban strategies tend towards green solutions that minimise environmental difficulties and favour the health of people and, in particular, of the elderly population living there, which is bound to increase in number every year. _x000D_
In fact, the World Health Organisation (2007 and 2018) identified the smart environment as one of the criteria for compatibility between the age of citizens and the city itself and supports active ageing in the city with age-friendly initiatives. _x000D_
For this, active citizen involvement, the concept of empowerment and ‘cityzentrism’ (Skouby et al. 2014) of the elderly is proposed for the purpose of eco-sustainable urban decoration and redevelopment in cities with the highest level of air pollution. The active contribution of people living in urban spaces can provide data necessary for the development of a digital system to manage geospatial data, identified as urban neighbourhoods in need of redevelopment or non-green, heavily polluted areas._x000D_
As a solution to the problem, functional artistic expressions, typical of green art, such as ‘Airlite’ paint eco-graffiti or Moss graffiti composed of mosses and lichens, are proposed. These forms of street art not only have the task of reducing air pollution, but of raising awareness among citizens to limit harmful behaviour towards the environment and can be translated into educational expressions in favour of urban decorum, such as lettering and signs on city streets.

Miriam Noto
Università degli Studi della Tuscia

 
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