Open space strategies: design solution to resilient cites

The contemporary city is characterised by a veritable archipelago of inhabitant, including minority ethnic group. If our final aims is the right for inhabitant to actively participate at the citizenship (equal civil, economic and social right,) physical planning and urban design had to be generators and catalysts of place making, place identity, liveability and quality of urban space. In several Capital cities local authorities are testing methods, in terms of physical planning and urban design, to analyse and to respond the demand of this archipelago, starting from urban green space design. The investigation field is supplied by the different open space strategies written by different local authorities giving specific solution in term of design parameters on inhabitant differences (population, social exclusion, lack of deprivation, open space deficiency and standard, demand related to the everyday life…), on resilience (natural disaster,...).