DOI: 10.5176/2251-3701_2.1.47
Authors: Maurizio Francesco Errigo
Abstract:
Following the end of the urban growth verified in the last 20 years the attention is focused on the city and on the understanding of its different parts and of their systemic relationships. The deindustrialization with the connected disposal of the urban structures, tied up to the economic transformations of the period from 1945 to 1985 has set in a central position of the urbanistic debate the presence of the urban voids and the deindustrialised areas inside the cities.
Nowadays there is the need to overcome partial logics and to frame the transformation in an optics that overcomes the planning for projects, as is occurred with the interventions Bicocca in Milan or for the Lingotto in Turin, it is necessary to consider deindustrialised areas are spaces that are changing their status from "problem" to "resource" through strategies of reuse that allow the rationalization of the existing infrastructures, the location of new productive activities and urban equipments able to oppose the urban decline and to produce quality.
Very often the disused areas create urban spaces that are perceived by the population as degraded and dangerous, or because of the lack of stability of dilapidated structures still present, sometimes putting at risk the safety of the inhabitants; These areas are often characterized by a wide number of infrastrucutres that are connected in efficient way to the urban context, but often we can’t see a sustainable use of such resources of mobility that is old, monofunctional and dominated by the movement on the wheels.
The considerable importance and dimension of the phenomenon and the implications for social, urban and economic re-use of disused involved sites, give to this areas a strategic role for the redevelopment of the city.
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