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Palermo Waterfront: the “fluid city” planning
2012
The most dynamic cities in the future will no longer be those that are able to attract iconic urban projects and investors driven by the real estate market focused on waterfront development, but the cities that have extensive cultural and ecological coastal resources and that are able to use them as the basis for creating new social identity and economic value. In a growing dematerialised development, the waterfronts of European cities are intersected by flows of the Network Society. They are subjects of experience economy and crossed by more powerful forces of regeneration and creativity-driven development. After the simple function of interfaces between sea and land, waterfronts are going…
Dal waterfront alla città liquida. Patologie relazionali e nuovi orizzonti del progetto
2012
I waterfront delle città europee si offrono alla nostra azione progettuale come rinnovate porte di scambio tra flussi di economie. Oltre che da fasci infrastrutturali sono sempre più attraversati da economie della conoscenza, da potenti forze di rigenerazione e sviluppo e molteplici economie di scambio li alimentano e ne connotano le fisionomie. Superata la funzione di semplici interfacce tra mare e terra, assumono quella di “portali” di connessione globale dei flussi materiali e immateriali. Da aree produttive, commerciali e funzionali si propongono come trasformatori di economie tra le reti lunghe globali e le armature dei contesti locali. Le nuove funzioni produttive e della mobilità nav…
Mediterranean waterfront Atlas: a tool for knowledge and decison-making
2012
The evolution of coastal urban and peri-urban areas between Malta and Sicily are the subject of extensive study that aims to build new tools and new approaches to planning in coastal areas. The project Italy-Malta WATERFRONT (of which the writer is a collaborator in the research activities for University of Palermo) adopts the logical and functional structure of the Atlas as a tool for understanding, interpretation, planning and monitoring of the transformations of four sample areas identified along the coastal border of Sicily and Malta. The Atlas aims to identify whether the Mediterranean territories under study require specific planning tools and, therefore, directs the decision-making p…
Waterfronts between Sicily and Malta: an integrated and creative planning approach
2012
In current global crisis, with the world’s GDPs dropping, the strong flows of financial, social and relational capitals that powered urban regeneration over the last fifteen years are no longer available to be tapped in an indiscriminate manner. Revitalising waterfront is no longer easy opportunity for long-term investments or for using the financial capital gains of hedge funds or sovereign funds, but a more creative port city has to provide precious opportunities for real development that is able to produce effects in both the domain of quality of public spaces and that of economic development. In this scenario acts an international cooperation project between Italy and Malta about waterf…
The Good Practice Framework for European Sustainable Urbanisation through port city Regeneration. An operative guide
2020
The ENSURE research reveals that port cities are relevant in sustainable urban regeneration. Taking into account the sensitivity of urban and port contexts, and the solutions adopted across European port cities, this Guide delivers a set of key policies in order to plan and manage the regeneration process, and describes how to apply a suitable model for regeneration in port cities.
Sustainable regeneration of port cities
2020
Despite overall growth in the maritime sector, many European port cities are challenged by the migration of port-related activities from inner-city areas to other locations. The relocation of these economic activities results in the emergence of brownfield sites in strategic urban locations. Reusing these sites in a sustainable manner can contribute to preventing new land take and the regeneration of port cities. The city of Brest (France) is a good example of a port city that rejuvenated its inner-city area in a sustainable way.
From Waterfront Regeneration to Fluid City Planning
2013
In current global crisis the strong flows of financial, social and relational capitals that powered urban regeneration over the last fifteen years are no longer available to be tapped in an indiscriminate manner as was the case until just a few years ago. The most dynamic cities in the future will no longer be those that are able to attract urban projects and investors driven by the real estate market or leisure-based development, but the cities that have deep and different cultural resources and that are able to use them as the basis for creating new urban cultures and for generating new economic values. Revitalising waterfront is no longer easy opportunity for long-term investments or for…
La città liquida: il waterfront come generatore di creatività urbana
2012
Le nuove dinamiche produttive, gli interventi di sviluppo sostenibile e le domande di conservazione del patrimonio architettonico che oggi investono le aree di waterfront delle città rappresentano un importante spunto di riflessione in una fase in cui il tema della rigenerazione delle “città d’acqua” sta aprendosi a nuove opportunità di trasformazione urbana e territoriale, agendo in maniera attiva nello scenario della produzione della qualità urbana. La rilevanza assunta negli ultimi anni dalle trasformazioni urbane in area di waterfront storici delle città ha, infatti, aperto nuove prospettive – e le conseguenti sfide – per la ricerca sulle condizioni di rischio, sulle pressioni antropich…
The Reshaping of the City-Port Interface in Palermo: A Case of Successful Urban Governance?
2023
In the last decades, various port cities in western countries have developed policies to make shipping activities more compatible with the urban environment and organization. This paper provides a critical interpretation of the process that is leading to the regeneration of the waterfront area of Palermo, the Italian fifth largest city by population. In a first part of the paper the events and economic factors that have negatively impacted on the city-port spatial relations are outlined. Subsequently, in the light of the new governance relations established between the city and port authorities, the strategy and main interventions of the port masterplan that is currently reshaping the city-…
Infra_architettura: un progetto integrato per il waterfront del Centro Storico di Palermo, poster alla Mostra Ingegneria Architettura. Rassegna delle…
2009
La storia e le trasformazioni della Cala, l'antico porto naturale della città di Palermo, sono legate e condizionate da quelle della città stessa. Il porticciolo della Cala di Palermo appare, con la sua forma circolare, come uno degli elementi di maggiore riconoscibilità urbana: un'icona che ha accompagnato nel corso dei secoli, come un'invariante, l'evoluzione morfogenetica della città dall'epoca della sua fondazione fino ai nostri giorni. A dispetto della sua rilevanza morfologica, la Cala, dominata dalla presenza del Castellammare, ormai fagocitato da un insieme caotico di insediamenti industriali, depositi di vario genere e strutture precarie, appare oggi completamente disgiunta dalla v…