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Expressways, a type of road associated with the mass use of cars, have become a determining factor in shaping the urban landscape, often disrupting the urban and social fabric. The car-centric model has had devastating environmental and social effects, creating physical barriers and segregating communities. The adversity of pedestrian movements is a consequence of these ruptures in space, which is now discontinuous and hierarchical. The urgency of promoting more sustainable cities calls for the consolidation of urban policies to enhance the system of collective spaces, along with the transition to balanced and inclusive mobility alternatives. This proposal invests in the regeneration of the urban (and social) fabric by integrating the VCI and its banks into Porto's natural and urban systems, recovering the territory's memory and reinforcing relations of solidarity between communities. 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