Abstract
URBAN DENSITY AND THE JUST DISTANCE: NEW FRONTIERS IN URBAN PLANNING PROJECT AFTER COVIDAbstractThe notion of density plays a central role in the history of urban-planning theories and practice, even beyond its role as a technical tool for measurement and assessment in service of the process to implement the plans. According to the historical period, it was associated with unhealthiness and a lack of hygiene or represented the operational tool to rationalize settlement systems. More recently it has been used as an antidote to the urban crisis originating from settlement dispersion and climate change. With the pandemic, it has beenblamed for the disaster originating from the virus by those who have uncritically ignored the complex factors that truly determine crises. This article supports a different point of view and, with the help of European experiences on the territorial and urban scale, refines the concept of ‘acceptable density’ and ‘just distance’ as goals for urban planning to contribute to containing settlement dispersion and ensuring the services that improve quality of life in cities and the conservation of natural spaces.Keywords: post Covid city, urban planning, quality of life
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