City vs Mobility

Urban planning and mobility planning are two sectors that have acted with separated and opposite logics. In a more recent time the two sectors have researched new approaches on the base of the interaction and with the aim of correcting the main dysfunctions in the space. But this interaction is not enough and it is necessary to create new interactions based on the assumption that the communication networks do not create the demand, but the demand analysis is a derivative of an authentic knowledge of the territory and of its problems. In this relationship the network become a planning factor and it lose the character of a transportation project. The processes of urban transformation are, today, more relevant than the processes of urban development; the transformations are increasingly new locations of functions. To the new functions follow the infrastructure necessary for a more efficient carrying out of the functions and for a more interesting position of the city in the international competition. The point is that can not be a one-sided decision (the transportistic decision) to define the project of networks and of junctions and, consequently, the urban spaces interested by the transformations. The infrastructure can not define the demand, but the demand is one of the analytic factors to evaluate in a global view of transformation and management of the urban and territorial transformations.