The recovery of illegal settlements: a case study

The Italian cities are often characterized by widespread phenomena of illegal settlements, which have resulted in a worsening of the quality of cities, people’s life and the environment quality, as well as a high soil consumption. The different Italian Regions have tried to solve the problem differently and the Campania region has provided for a specific planning tool, taken from national law. Given the serious situation of economic scarcity of public administrations that are difficult to predict demolitions or acquire all the abusive assets, today, more than in the past, it is essential to focus on plans for recovery of illegal settlements. Urban planning must today both reason on the damage produced by illegal settlements in terms of irrational soil consumption and inhomogeneous territorial development and must develop solutions to redevelop the areas currently burdened by the problem. The goal of this paper after the critical reading of some used tools is to exhibit the foreseen future intervention strategies.