Dall'area metropolitana allo sprawl urbano: la disarticolazione del territorio

Mazzeo, Giuseppe (2009) Dall'area metropolitana allo sprawl urbano: la disarticolazione del territorio. TeMA - Trimestrale del Laboratorio Territorio Mobilità Ambiente, 02 (04/09). pp. 7-20. ISSN 1970-9870

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Abstract

The paper tackles the phenomenon of the urban expansion through two concepts: metropolitan area and sprawl. The first, heir of the rational and positivist tradition of development, would lead to orderly and efficient metropolis; the second, son of the capitalist individualism and of the environmentalist emergency, considers the expanded city as one of the symbols of the process of unlimited appropriation of the space. Between these two concepts there is the short period of last crisis of the city, the two decades from 1970s to 1980s. From this moment the city is emerged acting out towards three main directions: the first is the expulsion of activities considered unessential; the second is the repossession of abandoned parts of the city and their transformation into high quality urban districts; the third is the search for new meanings and new perspectives, with the following marketing actions that appear to be central in the city’s policies. In this process it is interesting to observe that the actions regarded as positive are physically positioned in different places from the negative ones: when one talk about urban rehabilitation the mind runs to downtown or to semi-central urban areas; the same when one talk about actions on the image of the city. The expanded patch of the residences and of the connected functions seem extraneous to the quality factors and are classified as negative –but inevitable– processes. They are, in fact, generally the consequence of individualistic behaviours or the consequence of the strength of economical actors. Another observation is related with the localization of nonresidential functions in rural areas. Some items of interest are suggested by a closer look: – the settled functions are mainly related to trade and leisure; – they are functions requiring large spaces for its activities and for the parking of the users; – they need a fast mobility network, mainly by road; – in relation to the place they are headless and self-functional structures; – the same user is no longer a person but a client. The exact opposite happens in the urban interventions that affect the city, as core of the metropolitan area; in they are located primary functions dedicated to culture and knowledge. They are of high architectural quality and they are evocative of the urban places where they are located; they are reachable by a faster and efficient public transport network. The final section of the paper examines the metropolitan area of Naples. The analysis is conducted by a qualitative point of view (in relation to the functional character of the metropolitan area) and by a quantitative point of view (in relation to the changes of the population structure over the past 150 years). In this regard, the “analytical metropolitan area” has nothing to do with the potential administrative boundaries.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	L'approccio innovativo comune alla ricerca fa riferimento all'integrazione tra mobilità e territorio.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	area metropolitana, srawl urbano, disarticolazione territoriale
Subjects:	600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 620 Ingegneria e attivita' affini > 628 Ingegneria sanitaria; Urbanistica tecnica; Tecnologia della tutela ambientale > 628.9 Altri rami dell'ingegneria sanitaria e dell'Urbanistica tecnica 700 Arti, Belle arti e Arti decorative > 710 Urbanistica e paesistica
Depositing User:	Rosa Anna La Rocca
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2010
Last Modified:	20 May 2010 12:03
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/1260

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