Planning the historic palimpsest. A workshop about the Pompeii area

The landscape urbanism projects described by this paper are the results of the teaching laboratory in Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture of the Second University of Naples. The workshop was conducted using also some analytical cartographic technologies and aerial survey of Benecon (Regional Competence Centre for Cultural Ecology Economy) and was part of the research project named Campus Pompeii, funded by the European Community. The fulcrums of the projects are some areas between Pompeii and Vesuvius volcano: a bipolar landscape. The materials of the project are: urban and illegal sprawl, brownfields, the waste of the metabolism of one of the most dense urbanization of Europe (with a peak of about 12.000 inhabitants/square km of the town of Portici), the risk of Vesuvius, mobility infrastructure in use or abandoned, the waterfront, the network of archeological areas. The project area is defined by the Development's Territorial System “F3 – Miglio D’Oro-Torrese-Stabiese” of the Regional Territorial Plan, that incorporates the municipalities of Pompei, Boscoreale, Boscotrecase, Castellammare di Stabia, Ercolano, Portici, San Giorgio a Cremano, Torre Annunziata, Torre del Greco, Trecase. This area includes some of most relevant italian archeological sites, such as the Unesco sites of Pompei and Ercolano, as well as the protected area of the Vesuvius Park and the basin of the river Sarno.