Progettazione post pandemica degli spazi verdi

Urban green spaces are essential elements in all type of cities, providing several environmental benefits as well as beneficial effects on inhabitants’ physical and mental health. In a time of societal crisis and prolonged lockdowns with stay-at-home orders the relationship between humans and public spaces, in terms of use and perception, is changed. People modified their behaviors and noted the importance of some aspects related to design and maintenance of green spaces as the connection or the need to prepare a management plan of all green spaces. Within this context, rating systems for neighborhood can help to evaluate the sustainability performance of a plan and the ensure that these spaces are properly planned and managed. In this paper are analyzed two different rating systems to evaluate their guidelines about urban green spaces: GBC Quartieri and ITACA Scala Urbana. The first, with a point scheme, allots credits for neighborhood design features, and integrates the environment, infrastructures, and buildings for the creation of sustainable communities with a relationship net and a pre-existence connection. The “ITACA Scala Urbana” procedure consists of a multicriteria evaluation of the environmental sustainability and the compilation of a group of worksheets, one for each different internal performance indicator. The results show that what is requested by the population during the pandemic period is reflected in the certification systems.