Metropolitan Strategies. Urban planning scenarios for a territorial system

The Development's Territorial System “F3 – Miglio D’Oro-Torrese-Stabiese” of the Regional Territorial Plan, over Pompei, incorporates the municipalities of Boscoreale, Boscotrecase, Castellamare di Stabia, Ercolano, Portici, San Giorgio a Cremano, Torre Annunziata, Torre del Greco, Trecase. This area includes some of most relevant italian archeological site, such as the Unesco sites of Pompei and Ercolano. To define spatial planning strategies for this fragment of Metropolitan City of Naples, has been extracted strategic points and provisions relevant to the following territorial and urban plans: Regional and Territorial Plan (PTR – approved), Territorial Plan for provincial coordination (PTCP – adopted), all of Town Plans (PRG, PUC), Basin of Central Campania Plan (PSAI). These data were supplemented by ISTAT data regarding population, built heritage, employment, industry, agriculture, tourism. All data are georeferenced and comparable on GIS. Particular attention was dedicated to the identification of the infrastructural network and accessibility, understood as essential to proposed development and implementation of the region’s potential. The territorial analysis conducted within the research project named “Urban Ecotourism for Sustainable Exploitation of Cultural Heritage” besides defining a heritage of knowledge that makes consistent and overlapping data from different sources, have led to the definition of a preliminary strategic diagram, called “The gates of Pompeii” that traces a path along which will politics and territorial planning strategies as a base for development and to encourage this region’s potential in order to strengthen the co