One of the major controversial issues during the early planning of the italian HSR N-S spine, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, was about how it would deal with cities. We just mention it briefly in our paper, but I will dive into the case of Florence as I think it's particularly instructive.
Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · last yr.It took quite a while, but the paper about the history of high-speed rail planning in Italy that I co-authored with @beriapaolo.bsky.social is finally out! It's open source, so you can read it at length (it is pretty long), But here is a TL;DR: 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
