Many factors contribute to the 'quality of a territory', sometimes with interconnected or combined effects. Strategies to promote territorial quality improvement and the impacts associated with intertwining strategies may also be multiple - for example, when we address indirect or cumulative effects associated to air pollution, acoustic pollution, mobility time loss in a given area An improvement, in this case, could be achieved by reducing one or more types of emissions and take full advantage of direct and indirect benefits associated with such reduction/s. In this regard, it may be interesting to note that, if the watchword of the pandemic was and still is “distancing”, the one imposing itself in the aftermath could be “proximity”: neighbourhood services, 15-minute cities, schools, workplaces (co-working),territorial medicine, shops all easily reachable on foot or by sustainable means of transport (like bicycles). In order to get away from the logic of emergency and to reduce pollution and diseconomies in our territories, it could be beneficial therefore to make an effort to interconnect two crucial issues such as mobility and the use of public space, streets and other open spaces (e.g. pedestrian zones) in particular, to ease such proximity. One approach in defining strategies to improve the territorial governance could then be : A. To identify "drivers and barriers" to an higher territorial quality related to mobility, proximity and territorial management of services and infrastructures B. To define and elaborate "readiness indicators", capable of ascertaining the gaps (the interval of increase in resilience and urban/territorial sustainability) between the current status and projected conditions ensuring higher quality in a medium term scenario (max 5 years) C. To establish and plan improvement actions (capitalising on project-documented Good Practices) narrowing those gaps by effectively enhancing the current conditions. Such a systemic approach should be capable: i) To drive towards more integrated and cohesive benefits with regard to the current "quality of life and social well-being" ii) To organize - in an increasingly virtuous ranking - the different territorial areas, both urban and extra-urban, and to guide the concertation of “tailored” green interventions relying on the experiences shared at European level. (Po2 – Greener Europe)