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The fruition of a natural or anthropic territory depends basically by the access and moving condition inside the area. These aspects are related both to the paths network characteristics, like slopes and road accessibility, crossing methods and usability. In addition, a second aspect, which combine all the firsts, is represented by the way in which humans decide to experience this territory, creating a relationship between the way of thinking and movement, contextualizing their thought identity with the external environment. Starting from an analysis that consider both the relation between thought and movement, merging personal and collective identity, and the historical evolution of human’s walking and cycling, the article suggests a critical analysis about accessibility of an urban area close to Rome centre, using drawing and representation tools to support and visualize this process, in order to suggest a simplified and optimized territory access, meanwhile trying to keep alive and foster the basic connection between thinking and movement.
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In this article Prof. Marco Carpiceci worked on the relation between way of thinking and moving (paragraph 2), the history of walking and bicycling (paragraph 3) and the ratio between human effort and line slopes (paragraph 4). Besides, Michele Russo has worked on the introduction (paragraph 1) and on graphical urban analysis (paragraph 5), including all the maps representations.
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An important mention has to refer to the supposed “bicycle of Leonardo da Vinci”. This drawing was discovered for the sheet detachment belonging to the Atlantic Code, preserved inside the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The drawing is part of a series of drawings passed in inheritance by Francesco Melzi to Pompeo Leoni in the end of XVI century. Leoni had pasted a lot of Vinci’s drawings in a single volume, to give a uniform dimension and theme appearance, leaving out images which he considered apocryphal or few interesting. The drawing is technically far from Leonardo’s sheet and it is made with pencil and brown colour and it can be assumed that it can be the result of a non-experience hand. Due to the chain presence, it could be set in a period after 1880, while a sixteenth chain hypothesis would be not considered for the total absence of similar draws in that period inside the whole Vinci’s work.
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In addition to colour assignment, the going up direction should be visualized, information always deductible from altitude data. However, it’s clear at the end the final need to verify the compatibility of the map with the street direction of the specific road and with all the local rules concerning the possible practicability of bicycles on sidewalks or in the opposite direction respect to cars flow.
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The map represented in Fig. 5 doesn’t show the absolute altitude values, but the relative ones, considering 0 value close to Tiburtina Station, the area with the lower altitude. This representation choice is due to the easier interpretation of the relative altitude variation, aware that this translation come from the analysis about absolute data, which remain the elevation reference.
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Carpiceci, M., Russo, M. (2018). Representation Tools for Pedestrian and Cyclistic Fruition of Urban Area. In: Amoruso, G. (eds) Putting Tradition into Practice: Heritage, Place and Design. INTBAU 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57937-5_92
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