This paper investigates the problems and stresses of the contemporary city, mainly due to natural and health factors, related to climate change and the pandemic COVID19. Besides highlighting the characteristics of climate change and the ongoing pandemic, this study focuses on the analysis of the main effects and consequences that these phenomena have produced on the city and the vulnerabilities of the urban system. To understand how these events have impacted the urban environment, directly and indirectly, this research undertakes to define some specific indicators capable of comparing the phenomena and assessing their repercussions. The Methodology is based on the following focal points: on the analysis of the urban shocks that have affected the cities in the last decade, on the comparison between contemporary survey data and those relating to historical trends, on the definition of the main urban sectors particularly affected by the onset of urban shocks, and on the definition of strategies, actions, and tools deemed to be effective in the implementation of a post-pandemic and climate-proof city. These results were achieved through complementary urban design and tools capable of creating a post-pandemic and climate-proof adaptive city, within a cross-disciplinary approach.

Previous studies have investigated how resilience can play a pivotal role in strategic urban design in the Netherlands and in some regional and municipal planning laws in Italy. Here, we have analysed several European projects that utilised the resilience approach successfully. Dutch policies already include resilience and climate adaptation in urban strategies. Moreover, they share those strategies with urban communities, making the innovation of the city real and cutting-edge. In Italy, on the other hand, the concept of resilience is present only in some regional laws and is still not used as an urban tool. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate how resilience can become the new paradigm of smart planning. Furthermore, we demonstrate how resilience is fundamental at all levels of urban intervention, involving municipal authorities, architects and urban planners, firms and enterprises, citizens and communities. The urban governance must establish specific goals and objectives to create a smart and sustainable city. Resilience should be one of these main aims, in order to achieve an innovative city design. A climate strategy should also be part of urban smart planning, enabling the implementation of a safer and resilient city.

Soil consumption, marked by the expansion of artificial land cover for residential, productive, and infrastructural purposes, is a concerning trend in Italy, as revealed by the Copernicus land monitoring program. The issue is exacerbated by agricultural intensification and urbanization, particularly affecting regions like Lombardia and Piemonte. However, Sicilia, Abruzzo, and Lazio experience notable increases in processes of abandonment and re-naturalization. Data from Ispra highlights the need for in-depth study, especially in regions like Sicilia, where contrasting phenomena occur. This study utilizes Ispra data to monitor and formulate strategies for mitigating soil consumption and safeguarding ecosystem services. The research aligns with objectives related to combating climate change and facilitating the ecological transition of territories. The complexity of land consumption, influenced by interdependent factors, is evident in the achieved results. Effective strategies for containment and re-naturalization involve the implementation of town planning regulations and multi-level behavioral pathways. This study aims to identify contextual actions that can reduce land consumption, promote de-impermeabilization, and encourage re-naturalization, focusing on enhancing ecosystem services in land use activities. Thus, it focuses on understanding the contributions of ecosystem services, landscape restoration and green infrastructure on climate mitigation, and a reduction in land consumption in urban regeneration processes. As well, through open-source systems, it is important to monitor in real time the trend of the quantity of factors and variables and the state of the environment, and the reasons to intervene with systemic strategies and actions constitutes another lens of focus.

Cities and infrastructure (tangible and intangible-knowledge networks, energy) play a central role in every socio-economic relaunch strategy of our country's territory and their importance is confirmed within the large deck in a Masterplan strategic vision to build over the impulse screwed by the Government.The large European cities, and many Italian cities of the Centre-North, are located in the large European dimension of flows and free mobility of goods and people with new trains, ports and new networks will determine relations outside Europe. Shopping at the South – roughly at 35% to 2013 has been falling – that the enlarged public sector per capita is highest for a decade in the Centre-North. Among the SOEs ANAS, for example, invests in the South (6 regions plus two islands) about 70% in 2013, while Railways does not invest more time (14%). To build such a strategy, since we will not be able to bridge the structural programming within the latter gup not having made use of the previous ones, we must reverse the approach method: from immaterial to the territorial effects of concurrently by quality and competition and start the right to mobility as a condition of a modern society. In this sense we can point to some actions where competition is still open in Europe disorders and/or renegotiate the country's positions in the European area.

The European Commission has adopted the European Adaptation Strategy with the obligation for all the Member States to implement national plans to cope with the inevitable Climate Change impacts by 2017. Creating a waterproof city requires intensive cooperation, public awareness and citizens involvement. The issues are very topical because of the recent increase in extreme events related to climate change: heavy rains, tornadoes, water scarcity, drought. In recent years, there have been phenomena due to climate change, with temperatures and precipitations that have significant values of interest not in the conformation of the average value, but especially in the maximum seasonal and daily peak intensity. The methodology provides the study of some case studies that have been characterized by the experimentation of policies and strategies for successful adaptation and mitigation of hydraulic risks, in particular with regard to the preparation of climate adaptation strategies that have been tested successfully in some cities like Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Vancouver...The main goals and results of the research are related to the replicability of the analyzed best practices, with the aim of providing the municipalities of Southern Italy, and in particular of the Calabrian and Sicilian areas, with the appropriate tools and strategies to create waterproof cities with the full involvement of the settled communities.

The research addresses the difficulty of integrating ecosystem assessment into urban planning to respond to territorial vulnerabilities (Caldarice and Salata, 2019). Tech4You’s Pilot Project 4.6.1, on Reggio Calabria (Italy), develops a multidisciplinary approach that combines ecosystem assessment, digital twin and artificial intelligence for the creation of Climate Adaptation Plans (PACC). The critical testing of the “InVEST” model for calculating the “Carbon Storage and Sequestration” ecosystem service highlighted the limitations of current evaluation tools and the need for a more advanced platform. Hence, the P.P. 4.6.1 is developing a Platform that integrates predictive models and a Climate Intelligence Chamber in the prototype phase.