Integrated Approaches for Peri-Urban Wastescapes: Eco-Innovative Strategies of the REPAiR Project in the Naples Case Study

Introduction

The authors describe the integrated approach applied to the Neapolitan peri-urban context using wasted land as trigger sites for territorial regeneration. Firstly, starting from the references in the literature on waste territories, the proposed document provides the definition of wastescapes as conceived within the REPAiR project and the importance that they assume within the peri-urban areas. Secondly, the paper presents the material and investigates the methodology with which the approach has been conceived, tested in the pilot case study of Naples. Specifically, waste flows are studied and considered as resources for the regeneration of territory under consideration and to improve their urban metabolism. The core of methodology is incardinated on the mapping process. This is the main support tool for the definition and development of integrated strategies that are the operative result of the project. The aim of the document is twofold. On the one hand, research aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of approaches based on recycling of what is currently considered waste; on the other hand, how these can have a positive impact on the waste supply chain, and at the same time suggest a bold rethink of the landscape project. Therefore, the definition of new soils, as a result of the proposed process, represents an important catalyst for practices based on recycling and a new area of reconciliation between the urban and rural interface.