Port Resilience Practices. The Ecosystem Vision and the Cluster Concept within the RUMBLE and The Dunes Urban Park projects in Genoa

As is emerging in several contemporary studies, there are city-port contexts in which it is increasingly possible to identify new port resilience practices, namely those capable of overcoming past design situations and providing new perspectives on the city-port relationship; these practices are intervening in a prioritized way on the common border. Within these contexts, the capacity of port systems to engage with the city and, while still maintaining their operational aspect, to mitigate the effects of the demarcation generated by property borders can be seen. What further emerges is that ports are extensively fostering practices capable to go beyond the traditional port perimeter; this is contributing to turn the port into a driver of strategic projects. New urgencies, e.g. the harmful acoustic impacts generated by the port noise, are even enhancing the relevance of common borders, becoming new design challenges. These factors are all decisive in the case presented by this article which concerns a portion of the city-port interface in the port of Genoa-Prà. Thanks to the cross-border INTERREG project RUMBLE and its translation into The Dunes Urban Park, this case represents an effective port resilience practice that, by contributing to the redesign of the city-port ecosystem through a multi- dimensional approach, it is opening an unprecedented perspective of multi-scale territorial clustering between several ports, cities and institutions.