Cologno al Serio
& Urgnano
Bergamo, Italy
Cologno al Serio and Urgnano are two neighboring municipalities located in the heart of the lower Bergamo plain, about 15 km from the city of Bergamo. They are both towns of ancient origin and today have around 11,000 and 10,000 inhabitants respectively.
Cologno al Serio and Urgnano were selected as testbeds within the province of Bergamo to explore the potential for activating CA practices in a context where strong settlement growth over the last 20 years has reinforced a high car dependence, and where alternative forms of mobility remain ineffective. The analysis seeks to identify the key drivers and barriers influencing the development of CA initiatives.
What we're doing
Within the Common Access project, we have:
- Analyzed the local context, including surveys on mobility and accessibility to identify potential communities of practice
- Conducted interviews with local stakeholders
- Organized two Flowers of Proximity (FoP) workshops in 2025
- Produced a report summarizing the main findings, in the form of guidelines to support further interventions by local actors
The main goal of our research in the testbed is to understand how to shift mobility practices toward more sustainable and inclusive solutions. To do so, key mobility needs are detected, through workshops and focus groups—including the use of the FoP (Flower of Proximity) approach— to explore the conditions and opportunities for the activation of need-related or choice-related CA practices.
Latest Workshop
- In 2025, we carried out the Flowers of Proximity workshop, followed by a series of meetings with local stakeholders to discuss the results and explore possible policies to support community-based mobility.
Two thriving Italian towns, home to 21,000 residents, collaborating with COMMON_ACCESS on the future of how people move.
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