City-forming acts in incremental phases to obtain short and medium-term results, capable of producing that "urban oxygen" which is essential for the formation and maintenance of a new ecosystem, of reactivating inactive cycles, reconnecting interrupted ones or activating new ones, adapted to the identity and new perspectives of the city.
The phases of creative colonisation, collaborative consolidation and sustainable development of our future city-form will be articulated over time following an open strategy based on the following actions:
- Mending of the urban mesh through the creation of North-South crossing axes in continuity with the existing road layout above and below the future central railway axis;
- Integrated connection of urban sub-service networks to the new road and rail route with the addition of optical fibre for the digital transition and a peripheral urban thermal network for on-site energy exchanges;
- Technological insertion of a continuous underground level under the 20-metre thick urban plinth for the district EDGE computer rooms and the various energy exchange systems with the networks;
- Composition of 13 new urban blocks of different sizes, starting from the new road layout, all connected to the existing city and the future central longitudinal urban park on the railway axis;
- Activation of urbanity through a common settlement principle of peripheral built fringe, based on an urban base of variable thickness intended for city services, on the continuous front of the road layout in the periphery;
- Building modularity with 3 types of buildings, vertical on a square base, horizontal on a rectangular base and mix, above the urban basement with access to the road and active green at the back to accommodate the building programme;
- Urban nature, not cosmetic, but an active-productive tool for ecological transition: urban greenhouses on top of buildings, urban gardens on top of the plinth, horizontal and vertical geothermal energy, carbon sink park;
- Integrated energy approach to the building system and the use of construction and finishing materials: wooden structures, use of active and decarbonised concrete, photovoltaic panels on roofs, geothermal micro-piles, vegetal sunshades;
- Innovative programming with the proposed creation of a start-up village aimed at the integrated development of digital, ecological and energy transition in the depth of urban services.

The process of urban regeneration, essential to reactivate the metabolism of urban components in transition, must not fall into the frequent trap of top-down, idealised and demiurgic solutions. Instead, it must accept the challenge of adopting an adaptive and incremental approach capable of acting on the life cycles of identities. Not a closed and simultaneous approach, but an incremental, recursive and flexible one. City-forming is a design protocol for urban regeneration that can reactivate the metabolism of this part of the city from its latent components, activating different life cycles with increasing intensity to create a new sustainable urban ecosystem. City-forming is based on the idea of provoking an incremental and adaptive process, "designed" to activate itself through the connective capacity of its still active territorial components, creating new ones, modifying their composition, facilitating new interactions to make the area capable of sustaining a new ecosystem.