Social & cultural sustainability: street art in Naples

Street art is a form of creative expression that has recently become more widespread, with different attitudes and impacts depending on the contexts where it can be found. In Italy, it has established itself above all in the suburban neighborhoods of the major metropolitan cities with significant social and, sometimes, economic impacts. In this perspective, this paper analyzes what is currently happening in several Neapolitan neighborhoods. Thanks to the initiatives of a number of associations, several public residential building complexes, that are suffering from both physical and social degradation, are re-capturing identities thanks to the powerful social charge of the murals that are not only on the buildings but also in the underground.