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Author(s)
Stefano Maggi
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2142/2016.02.006
Affiliation(s)
Department of Political and International Science, University of Siena, Siena I-53100, Italy
ABSTRACT
The Italian town is known
as a collection of walls, gates, towers, palaces and cathedrals. The lanes and
the squares were created in the Middle Ages, with an urban fabric suitable for
horses and carriages, not for motor cars. At the beginning of the 1960s, it was
no longer possible to delay a solution to the problem of traffic and the first
“pedestrian isle” was realized in the centre of Siena in 1965. Other towns in a
few years followed this virtuous example. Acts against traffic avoided the
building of urban motorways and the demolition of ancient buildings that would
have given the “coup de grace” to
several important historic centres.
KEYWORDS
Medieval town, urban environment, traffic and urban planning, transport history.
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