Port-Territory Interfaces. Planning Towards Logistics and Urban Development Scenarios

The research project focuses on port systems as networks of infrastructure that spread in the regional territory through seaport areas, inland terminals, logistics platforms and corridors. The study investigates processes of governance, planning tools and spatial outcomes through which port authorities, cities, regions and states support new strategies for development, beyond the boundary of the port and according to the improvement of infrastructure’s performance. The ‘spaces of flows’ are influencing contemporary landscapes. Flows of goods affect human behaviours and built environments by providing commodities from all over the world. For this reason, the study addresses global networks focusing on the effects that supply chain capitalism and financial elite actors produce in the local context of port regions. According to urban theories, the city is no longer a compact urban form. Urban planners have to deal with new ‘splintered’ forms of urbanization and urban structures spreading in wide regional areas. In the urban development framework, logistics areas related to port network are usually outsourced to engineering expertise and transport policy. Transport planning, aiming to assure the efficiency of the infrastructural armor of the territory, is increasingly disconnected from wider urban policy goals. The dissertation claims that port and logistics areas are part of the contemporary urbanized world, and are also strategic in planning, especially when new scenarios and urban regeneration programs are set up. Considering that logistics areas vary in size, distribution and location, the study investigates the port system in a multiscalar perspective focusing on multiple actors and strategies occurring from the port-city threshold to the hinterland. The research study provides an understanding of how the port system – in its spatial and institutional implications – affects planning processes, and it questions the urban design dimension of hard port infrastructure. As a final aim, the dissertation gives insights to foster a new perspective in Italian planning policies related to port networks and port territories development. In order to do this, the research approach focuses the relationships between spatial patterns and institutional structures given the different layers of interactions that the scattered port system embraces within the territory. This approach allows for study of port-territory planning issues, addressing their variations and complexities by framing the areas of investigation through specific port-territory interfaces. Port-territory interfaces identify areas of analysis where scattered port and logistics infrastructure interact with different territorial patterns. Applying this method of investigation, qualitative analyses have been conducted on case studies through desktop research of official documents and instruments, and semi-structured interviews to key actors. The Dutch case is framed as a European model from which it is possible to deduce insights and assess constraints in order to challenge Italian issues. The latter are highlighted through the main case study on Campania region. The dissertation provides an analysis of different port-territory scenarios in order to foster a comprehensive vision of port system issues in contemporary urbanized areas. In doing so, it aims to propose a more sensitive approach to local implications of global infrastructure. The goal of the research study is to improve planning tools oriented to the development of successful spatial and institutional relationships of port-territory interplay

Building Back Better Resilient Public Spaces What the COVID-19 pandemic changed in urban planning and design

The aim of the paper is to point out the role of resilient public spaces in ensuring public health and safety in the time of pandemic and in multi-risk scenarios. The investigation of urban strategies – that guarantee accessibility and flexibility of public spaces – is framed in opposition to the policies of closure and forbiddance of use which have largely been applied during the COVID-19 pandemic in the years 2020-2022, especially in Italy. Through a review of current policies on the topic of multi-risk exposure and emergency management at the global, Europe- an, national, and local level (with the case of the Campania Region, in South Ita- ly), the paper underlines the weaknesses of urban planning and design instances in emergency decision-making processes. A selection of initiatives that experi- mented new spatial uses and configurations of public spaces is used to reflect on how recent practices reacted to the pandemic, as an alternative to restrictive, non-resilient approaches. The results are discussed and interpreted as relevant components to build back better, reinterpreting the role of public spaces towards an innovative research agenda for more sustainable and resilient planning and design

Di-stanze urbane. Spazi pubblici adattivi per la tutela della collettività

Per ridurre la perdita di vite umane e limitare i danni ambientali ed economici causati da emergenze epidemiologiche come la recente diffusione del virus SARS-Cov-2 e dell’infezione Covid-19, è fondamentale promuovere una cultura del rischio e della prevenzione. Un maggiore benessere psicofisico in ogni fase dell’emergenza può essere garantito attraverso la riorganizzazione del welfare materiale e immateriale, potenziando le capacità di accoglienza dello spazio urbano, programmandone una fruibilità sia ordinaria che emergenziale. La recente pandemia ha, infatti, fatto emergere criticità interdisciplinari legate alla forma degli insediamenti urbani e periurbani, ai comportamenti individuali e alle condizioni di vita ad essi connessi. In particolare, nei territori fragili, è evidente la crisi di un sistema – quello pubblico – le cui strutture materiali ed il cui ruolo vanno oggi riformati complessivamente a partire dai concetti di iper-prossimità e priorità d’uso, in forme ridefinite dagli abitanti stessi. Ripensare le aree urbane nella prospettiva della ‘15-minute city’ pone l’attenzione sull’attuale dotazione, distribuzione e accessibilità di spazi e servizi pubblici. Appare ineludibile un'integrazione tra gestione dell'emergenza ed adattamento delle strutture pubbliche con particolare riferimento a quelle sottoutilizzate o in stato di abbandono, anche attraverso l’inclusione di nuovi attori nelle politiche di gestione dello spazio pubblico attraverso l’empowerment

Design Processes for the Redevelopment of Toxic Landscapes in Napoli Est. The Role of Soil in Contemporary Spatial Transformations

Urban transformations are critical to understand and orient design trend and governance processes. In the framework of Urban Metabolism and Circular Economy, the paper focuses on the cyclical use of resources in the processes of urban renewal that are carried out in contaminated lands. Through the explanatory case study of the ex Manifattura Tabacchi – a former industrial site located in the polluted eastern area of Napoli, in South Italy – the research underlines that local policies still strive to operationalize the dialectic between urban design and ecological restoration, raising numerous challenges in both governance and design dimensions. The paper addresses the unfruitful gap between design and remediation as a new frontier that architects and urban designers must overtake to govern the transition towards an effective ecological turn in design disciplines. The objective of this study is to provide fruitful insights in revealing the soil as a socio-technical resource whose value has to be culturally acknowledged in order to rise stakeholders’ awareness, and thus being instrumental in decision-making. In the conclusion, research trajectories are provided to implement the debat

Mediterranean Metabolism. A global notion adapted to local conditions of Southern European city

Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015The development of the contemporary city produces deep changes in the organization of settlements and causes dramatic consequences on the natural environment. The res the concept of Urban Metabolism as a model which considers cities as open systems flows of material and energy as inputs and waste as outputs. A more efficient use study with more effectiveness the relationship between urbanization phenomena environmental contexts. The research approach is finalized to understand the co European cities and extend the basic metabolism concept to specific morphological anthropological peculiarities of territories such as alteration of landscape, li and their socio-economic behaviours, in a multi-layered framework, embracing palimpsest and historical pre-existences. The research project focuses on per Naples and Caserta in South Italy that was investigated through the lens of UM t in which flows go through this territory modifying its spatial configuration and alteration of land use. The aim of this paper is to propose a multidisciplinary the construction of an interpretative analysis of the local conditions, through design solutions that should support a more aware and appropriate urban planning Mediterranean cities. This approach is based on the idea that metabolism is transferable notion, rather it is an interpretation of specific relationships ecological context, which should be applied at a local scale.Published Versio

Building Back Better Resilient Public Spaces

The aim of the paper is to point out the role of resilient public spaces in ensuring public health and safety in the time of pandemic and in multi-risk scenarios. The investigation of urban strategies – that guarantee accessibility and flexibility of public spaces – is framed in opposition to the policies of closure and forbiddance of use which have largely been applied during the COVID-19 pandemic in the years 2020-2022, especially in Italy. Through a review of current policies on the topic of multi-risk exposure and emergency management at the global, European, national, and local level (with the case of the Campania Region, in South Italy), the paper underlines the weaknesses of urban planning and design instances in emergency decision-making processes. A selection of initiatives that experimented new spatial uses and configurations of public spaces is used to reflect on how recent practices reacted to the pandemic, as an alternative to restrictive, non-resilient approaches. The results are discussed and interpreted as relevant components to build back better, reinterpreting the role of public spaces towards an innovative research agenda for more sustainable and resilient planning and design

LABORATORIO PONTICELLI. Tre scenari per un progetto di recupero di paesaggi interrotti.

Il caso studio del quartiere di Ponticelli, nella periferia orientale di Napoli, offre un repertorio di aree inedificate, frammiste ad edilizia residenziale pubblica, grandi attrezzature e reti infrastrutturali. Decenni di pianificazione onnicomprensiva hanno composto un panorama di paesaggi di scarto e disattesi dei piani. Nella loro sovrapposizione al fuori-scala di uno spazio urbano senza qualità, nasce un’inedita possibilità per recuperare i rapporti con il palinsesto agricolo, in processi di rigenerazione incrementale, entro cui coinvolgere nuovi attori, misurare gerarchie tra spazio aperto e costruito. Il Laboratorio di Sintesi del Corso di Studi UPTA (DiARC, Unina), sullo sfondo dei principi dello sviluppo sostenibile, ipotizza tre scenari per orientare il nuovo Programma di Recupero Urbano recentemente promosso dal Comune di Napoli

Reinventing wastescapes in port cities. A resilient and regenerative approach to plan Naples at the time of logistics

Port cities and metropolitan port territories are experiencing a profound transition as a consequence of radical spatial and governance changes mainly led by logistics’dynamics. Contemporary spaces between ports and cities have often become a collage of wastescapes: marginal territories resulting from the current uneven growth of port cities. This contribution developesa new methodological approachby stating that neglected spaces represent a precious resource to initiate circular and resilient regenerations of port cities through metabolic transformation processes. The article points out the wastescapes of the port of Naples as network of resources that allows decision-makers and urban planners to combine the logistical strategies and the enhancement ofthe port cultural heritage throughsynergistic interventions