Cycling & Walking for Regional Development

1. Front Matter

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2. A Proposal of Regeneration for Marginal Areas

   1. Front Matter

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   2. From Slow Tourism to Slow Travel: An Idea for Marginal Regions

      • Paolo Pileri, Rossella Moscarelli

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   3. The Seat and the Saddle: How Slow Is Quick and Fast Is Stuck

      • Tim Ingold

      Pages 17-22

   4. Marginality: From Theory to Practices

      • Rossella Moscarelli

      Pages 23-38

   5. Marginalised Areas as a Public Policy Concern

      • Manos Matsaganis

      Pages 39-48

   6. Italian Policies on Marginal Territories: An Overview

      • Benedetta Silva

      Pages 49-60

3. Landscape and Heritage as Keys for Slow Travel

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Slowness to Discover the Ordinary Italian Landscape

      • Chiara Visentin

      Pages 63-81

   3. Food on the Bike

      • Massimo Montanari

      Pages 83-84

   4. The Role of Historic Roads to Preserve and Valorize the Landscape

      • Alberta Cazzani, Maurizio Boriani

      Pages 85-103

   5. Cultural Heritage Preservation and Territorial Attractiveness: A Spatial Multidimensional Evaluation Approach

      • Alessandra Oppio, Marta Dell’Ovo

      Pages 105-125

4. A Line Born for Sustainable Development: The Case Study of VENTO

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Slow Travel Project for Enhancing Territories: Motivations and Directions

      • Paolo Pileri

      Pages 129-140

   3. Design, Public Engagement and Communication: Reframing Methodology

      • Alessandro Giacomel, Diana Giudici, Camilla Munno

      Pages 141-162

   4. Narration of Cultural Heritage as Antifragile Tool

      • Catherine Dezio

      Pages 163-173

5. European Policies and Strategies Enhancing Projects of Slowness

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Learning from Experience: A Set of European Policies

      • Federica Bianchi

      Pages 177-204

   3. The United Kingdom’s National Cycle Network: Paths for Everyone, Past, Present and Future

      • Xavier Brice

      Pages 205-219

   4. The Singularity of the Camino de Santiago as a Contemporary Tourism Case

      • Rubén C. Lois González, Lucrezia Lopez

      Pages 221-233

This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and marginality/spatial inequality and explores the linkages between these topics. Key issues are addressed by experts from various disciplinary backgrounds, and potential measures are proposed for the integration of slow tourism into strategies for regional development. Particular attention is devoted to the VENTO project, which involves the creation of a 700-km-long cycle route from Venice to Turin that passes through various rural and marginalized areas of northern Italy. The goal, research process, design, and early lessons from this important project are all discussed in detail. Moreover, the book describes policies and strategies that have successfully been used to enhance the slow tourism infrastructure in other European countries.Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, and students interested in e.g. policymaking, tourism planning, regional development, and landscape and urban planning.

• Slow tourism infrastructure
• Pathways and cycleways
• Reframing sustainability in tourism
• Regeneration of marginalised areas
• Spatial inequalities
• Marginalization
• Regional development strategies
• Territorial cohesion
• Cultural heritage valorization in marginal areas
• SwissMobility model
• European policies of slow tourism
• Sustainable development
• Heritage regeneration
• VENTO project
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“This volume is an essential contribution … should be of interest to regional and rural development researchers and policymakers, regional planners, tourism scholars, mobilities researchers, and activists seeking to find the right synergies between active travel, sustainable tourism and the revaluation of marginalised territories. The book serves as an introduction to the intersection of these research domains and joins the exhaustive body of evidence that foregrounds place-based responses to lagging or regional discontent.” (Wilbert den Hoed, Regional Studies, Vol. 57 (10), 2023)

• Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  Paolo Pileri, Rossella Moscarelli

Paolo Pileri is a Full Professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. His research interests have consistently brought together environmental issues with urban and landscape planning, and many of his research efforts have involved projects focusing on sustainable mobility as a way to better link people and landscapes. In this context, he has been working on the VENTO project to connect “forgotten” but nonetheless stunning Italian landscapes along the Po River by means of an extensive cycle path. This is not merely about the path itself, but also the ability of a territory and landscape project to generate a new, green/local economy and new high-quality jobs. Professor Pileri is the author or editor of numerous publications, ranging from books and journal articles to popular works.

Rossella Moscarelli is currently engaged in a Ph.D. project titled “Inner areas and slow lines: an opportunity to regeneratemarginalized territories in Italy” at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. Holding an M.Sc. (cum laude) in Environmental and Technological Architecture, she is an active collaborator in the VENTO research group and has also studied public policies relating to, and the impacts of, the Camino de Santiago in Spain. She is the author of numerous publications on slow tourism infrastructure, land consumption, and regeneration. 

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