The research investigates whether, and under what conditions, cycling mobility and tourism can become practices of landscape (re)construction, taking the Riviera Berica Cycle Route - built on the former trackbed of the Vicenza-Noventa tramway - as a case study. Framed within the paradigms of the everyday landscape and the mobility turn, the research understands landscape as the outcome of practices, mobilities and relations, rather than merely an aesthetic form. Through a qualitative multi-method design (historical-documentary analysis, field observations, interviews with insider/outsider cyclists and public/private stakeholders), the cycle route is interpreted as a “landscape in motion” and as a territorial device that reshapes accessibility, centre-periphery hierarchies and local imaginaries. The results highlight a marked gap between political rhetoric focused on external cycle tourism and actual uses, which are dominated by residents and sports cyclists, within a framework of fragmented and weakly participatory governance. The slowness of the bicycle activates processes of material and symbolic regeneration, but also exposes the territory to risks of selective valorisation and green gentrification. The research concludes that cycling mobility and tourism can contribute to the co-construction of landscape only if they are embedded in processes of commoning: polycentric governance, systematic monitoring, stable participatory pathways and genuinely regenerative tourism, oriented towards the quality of life of insiders as well as the attractiveness for visitors.
La ricerca indaga se e a quali condizioni la mobilità ciclabile e il turismo possano diventare pratiche di (ri)costruzione del paesaggio, assumendo la Ciclovia Riviera Berica - ricavata dall’ex sedime della tranvia Vicenza-Noventa - come caso di studio. Inquadrata nei paradigmi del paesaggio del quotidiano e del mobility turn, la ricerca legge il paesaggio come esito di pratiche, mobilità e relazioni, e non solo come forma estetica. Attraverso un disegno qualitativo multi-metodo (analisi storico-documentale, osservazioni sul campo, interviste a ciclisti insider/outsider e a stakeholder pubblici/privati), la ciclovia è interpretata come “paesaggio in movimento” e dispositivo territoriale che ridisegna accessibilità, gerarchie centro-periferia e immaginari locali. I risultati mostrano uno scarto marcato tra retoriche politiche centrate sul cicloturismo esterno e usi reali, dominati da abitanti e ciclisti sportivi, in un quadro di governance frammentata e scarsamente partecipata. La lentezza della bici attiva processi di rigenerazione materiale e simbolica, ma espone anche a rischi di valorizzazione selettiva e green gentrification. La ricerca conclude che mobilità ciclabile e turismo possono contribuire alla co-costruzione del paesaggio solo se inquadrati in processi di commoning: governance policentrica, monitoraggio sistematico, percorsi partecipativi stabili e un turismo realmente rigenerativo, orientato alla qualità di vita degli insider oltre che all’attrattività per i visitatori.
La mobilità ciclabile e il turismo come pratiche di ri-costruzione del paesaggio: Il caso della Riviera Berica
MARTINUCCI, MARCELLO
2024/2025
Abstract
The research investigates whether, and under what conditions, cycling mobility and tourism can become practices of landscape (re)construction, taking the Riviera Berica Cycle Route - built on the former trackbed of the Vicenza-Noventa tramway - as a case study. Framed within the paradigms of the everyday landscape and the mobility turn, the research understands landscape as the outcome of practices, mobilities and relations, rather than merely an aesthetic form. Through a qualitative multi-method design (historical-documentary analysis, field observations, interviews with insider/outsider cyclists and public/private stakeholders), the cycle route is interpreted as a “landscape in motion” and as a territorial device that reshapes accessibility, centre-periphery hierarchies and local imaginaries. The results highlight a marked gap between political rhetoric focused on external cycle tourism and actual uses, which are dominated by residents and sports cyclists, within a framework of fragmented and weakly participatory governance. The slowness of the bicycle activates processes of material and symbolic regeneration, but also exposes the territory to risks of selective valorisation and green gentrification. The research concludes that cycling mobility and tourism can contribute to the co-construction of landscape only if they are embedded in processes of commoning: polycentric governance, systematic monitoring, stable participatory pathways and genuinely regenerative tourism, oriented towards the quality of life of insiders as well as the attractiveness for visitors.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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