Abstract
This paper suggests to reflect on the waterfront in a nontraditional way, referring to theoretical and methodological assumptions, developed in recent years about “Cities from the Sea” by our research group in the National Research Council of Italy. So the first step is to move from cognitive analysis to proposals and projects. We can refer to the positive experience of New York that is a best practice in approach, strategies and results. The key of this success is a synthesis of the metropolitan vision favored by the public government, the activation of stakeholders to get results of common interest, the involvement of local communities. People was informed and motivated to put a position, they were encouraged to participate and to give a significant contribute to the achievement of results.
Highlights
The coast, close to the sea, is a sensitive area where the issue of sustainable development shows itself in all its complexity and potentiality
Naples has to go beyond the municipal logic especially through the community base action, aiming at a metropolitan vision even without an institutional interlocutor
– despite in Italy there has been a prescription of law since 1990 to introduce the metropolitan cities as a form of intermediate government – there isn’t yet an official institution for the government of the metropolitan city of Naples as well as of Rome or Milan
Summary
The coast, close to the sea, is a sensitive area where the issue of sustainable development shows itself in all its complexity and potentiality. In urban and metropolitan areas, complexity increases as well as potentiality, at environmental, social and economic level. The creation of public spaces could produce concentration of people and of leisure functions so that it became a font of potential congestion on the waterfront. This should be prevented through a metropolitan vision of the urban life and activities, by managing functions, flows and mobility both at the physical level and at the immaterial one. The feasibility of the process of transformation of the waterfront is played on the economic front This occurs for every recovery plan for redeveloping built areas close to the sea or to. We can individuate a new trend starting on 2000 with attention to the maritime perspective and shared methodologies at an international level [17, 18, 19, 20, 21]
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