ACCESSIBLE CITIES OF EUROPEAN REGIONS
The project would like to underline that accessibility is a primary aspect for determining the whole pleasantness of a city and an important aspect for enhancing the quality of life of all citizenships, also the temporary residents like tourists and is also an important factor for the promotion and qualitative development of urban areas. The logic of city accessibility is always related to a complete fruition of a series of structures by citizens and tourists, but above all services devoted to persons with "special" needs. The project aims to create accessible urban thematic routes (i.e. from the railroad - to the hotel and restaurants - to the tourist information centre, to the monuments or to the exibitions and the buildings which contain them). The project starts from the redefinition and adaptation to a larger number of urban ambit of the Igv-vae methodology at the moment applying only for the buildings, and aims to point out all the other parameters that identify accessibility in the remaining part of the city territory. The project will focus on the creation of a common protocol of communication for supporting an informative network made of local networks, data collection and implementation of pilot actions. As underlined in ESDP, the emergence of urban networks can be advantageous for regional development because it improves the range of services offered specifically, in the framework in the field of accessibility and the economic conditions of the region and thereby increasing its competitiveness.