Wastelands as an opportunity for managing Naples’ sustainable transition

• Authors: Gilda Berruti , Maria Federica Palestino
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

wastescape regeneration; multilevel governance; waste circularity; transition management

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 33-42

Dates

published

2020-12-30

Contributors

author

Gilda Berruti

• University of Naples Federico II, Department of Architecture, via Forno Vecchio 36, 80134 Naples, Italy

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-4793

author

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1231-1952.27.2.03