Quale città per il dopo pandemia?

The paper aims to retrace the results of some researches on the theme of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the city in order to define which could be the possible scenarios of transformation of the city as a result of the occurred impacts. In particular, the more diffused results of these researches are referred to the ininfluence of settlement density on the spread of the virus and to the strong differentiation between social classes in the exposure to it. These findings are at the basis of some possible trajectories of modification of the city in relation to the consequences and lessons received from the infection of Coronavirus. Topics such as migration of urban populations, gentrification, the role of open space, especially public, issues related to social structure or, again, mobility, have been identified as the most relevant categories if you want to address a post-pandemic planning action. The tool identified to face these challenges is the “residual plan”, an element resulting from the difference between the “supply plan”, that is the urban plan as we know it today, and the ‘demand plan’, structured on the demands from below, on the society needs. Into detail, the residual plan has been declined as the plan of resilience, where resilience is the emerging theme in the planning landscape and therefore not yet consolidated neither within the supply plan nor in the demand plan. Finally, the case study presented refers to this framework. It is a a small urban regeneration project through a resilient approach in the city of Padua (Italy). It has exemplified a way of acting within the residual plan to achieve an improvement in urban planning consistent, among others, with the analysis and hypotheses proposed in the analytical part of the paper and referred to Covid-19.