Wastelands as an opportunity for managing Naples’ sustainable transition

Gilda Berruti; Maria Federica Palestino

doi:10.18778/1231-1952.27.2.03

Authors

Gilda Berruti University of Naples Federico II, Department of Architecture, via Forno Vecchio 36, 80134 Naples, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-4793
Maria Federica Palestino University of Naples Federico II, Department of Architecture, via Forno Vecchio 36, 80134 Naples, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-3728

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1231-1952.27.2.03

Keywords:

wastescape regeneration, multilevel governance, waste circularity, transition management

Abstract

Circular economy offers new visions of how diversely urban spaces could be inhabited and managed. While the generation and management of waste is being treated through innovative practices, disused industrial, rural, and infrastructural areas are resistant to becoming included in a closed-loop cycle. They, in fact, establish wastelands that need to be completely re-imagined as a precondition for the transition. The fact of shifting the definition of a ’neglected area’ into a ‘wasteland’, in line with the metaphor of urban metabolism, could be of tactical importance for generating alternative policies and practices. In exploring how the transition impacts Naples’ urban region, the paper argues that turning wastelands into resources has the double potential of rehabilitating spaces and challenging the governance model in use, overcoming barriers in multiple sectors.

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