Urban multimodality: re-thinking the role of the railway station in informal cities

Rossi, Loris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5650-3374 (2016) Urban multimodality: re-thinking the role of the railway station in informal cities. Forum A+P (17). pp. 8-43. ISSN 2227-7994

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Abstract

This paper deals with the idea of Urban Multimodality as a way to rethinking the role of the railway station within informal cities. The complex topic of the railway station will be addressed through definition of terms and operative case studies. This paper will underline how certain existing characteristics belonging to the Albanian cities can be adapted as a tool to generate new urbanity and new infrastructural systems. The word multimodality is a purpose to investigate new ways to reinterpret the character of spontaneous cities as collections of multiplicity as well as multimodality. The idea of multimodal station will not be considered as a limit for the city, but rather as an actual pivot related to the different parts of the existing network. From a strategic point of view the new intermodal station will improve the different functional layers in terms of paths and strategies for a new vision of the city. Such a relationship was for years the source of international debates. The subject of this paper will allow the examination of the complex urban fabric of informal cities in relation to the new transport requirements.