Abstract
In the sustainable paradigm of the circular economy, waste is a resource to be valued. Similarly, in the circular city, fringe areas and urban wastescapes are places full of potential. This study consider two modern suburbs in Amsterdam and Naples. The two cases aims to compare the characteristics, potential and problems of the two districts and the ongoing actions for sustainable or circular urban regeneration. The objective is to identify the potential of these two European suburbs in the wider process of development of fair and circular cities. Therefore, this paper aims to answer to the following research question: Based on the two case studies Bijlmermeer and Scampia, what is the potential for circular and socially sustainable urban transformation of the 1960s suburbs? Analysing the main changes that have taken place over the last ten years in these complex areas, the main drivers are identified with the historical value of modern architecture landmarks, the opportunities offered by big green public spaces in dense urbanized areas, the presence of active place-based communities and their position in nodal points of the metropolitan areas.
Highlights
Circular Economy (CE) is a recent and still contested concept [1]
While the city of Amsterdam has set itself concrete objectives of thriving through CE models, the City of Naples does not yet have a plan aimed at implementing circular policies
Bijlmermeer and Scampia have grown and deeply transformed over time; in this paper we have compared the two modern areas, that have suffered the condition of becoming wastescapes, in which there is still evidence of the original contested modern architecture
Summary
Circular Economy (CE) is a recent and still contested concept [1]. Many CE definitions have been developed over last years, and there are a few explicit linkages with sustainability [2], it seems to be the most effective paradigm for sustainability [3]. The idea of circularity is mostly about closing supply chains, through the implementation of strategies for reduction, reducing, recovering and recycling, as much as possible, waste materials by optimizing resource management in metabolic systems. This is consistent with the SDG 12, that concerns precisely "responsible consumption and production". That correspond to the SDG 11, is explored in the idea of the circular city. A clear definition of what is a Circular City (CC) still under development [5], but it seems to mean more than a city where CE is implemented [6]. Because CE monitoring is mainly connected to urban metabolism study, urban studies included waste lands to be claimed and reused in the idea of circularity
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