Dialogue with cultural heritage. Urban design for innovation and the pocket parks in Florence’s city centre

Historic environment and relations between open space and its spatial and social dynamics has to be considered in urban design to revitalise and re-appropriate urbanity and vitality; To restore and define urban form; To redistribute new uses and functions; To guarantee accessibility and interaction of heritage places; To integrate nature and culture with social relationships.Urban design attempts to project a new characterisation of urban spaces and their urbanity and can offer solutions for a regeneration that is based on more specific criteria of ecological and sustainable management. This chapter attempts to project a new characterisation of urban spaces and their urbanity and can offer solutions for a regeneration that is based on more specific criteria of ecological and sustainable management. Specifically, historic contexts with a great potentiality for regeneration, have to identity project methods and design principles for management that should be based on ecological, sustainable and smart solutions.