Soil liberation in the multimodal city

New mobility is not just technological innovation, but a change in lifestyles, means and services, ways of doing business and governance of the common good, represented by urban space and service infrastructures. As the car has shaped the city of the 20th century with all its distortions, the new mobility systems of the new millennium could redefine the use of urban space with a new, more balanced footprint. The new mobility could allow us to drastically reduce the total number of vehicles in circulation (with the interchange and the continuous use of these) and to free large areas of the city, for example the parking spaces, which could be destined to others. uses, and areas of service to the car as a hub of widespread freight delivery. In this scenario, the motorway service stations will become more similar to interports, exchangers serving not only travelers but also and above all portions of metropolitan areas, small cities and territorial areas of influence, creating a system of "Cells" of relevance. Today, therefore, awareness is spreading that new mobility also requires a different approach to the city and its design, given that the electrical infrastructure contributes to the (re) definition of urban space. For this reason, cities must change their approach and get help from technology to understand where and how to intervene, aiming at having as primary objective the restitution of the space granted to the streets, designed for cars, returned to citizens and their needs expanded. New - electric mobility, as well as connected, shared, multimodal - is in fact part of the new cities that are being built. The more consolidated cities will also have strong benefits: a case study applied to the entire urban area of Florence demonstrates the potential of this revolution already underway.