Hackert’s landscape paintings realized in Eighteenth Century basically represent Ager Campanus territory, the big plain situated in Northern Campania between provinces of Naples and Caserta (Italy), as an agricultural landscape affected by a discontinuous urban system constituted by small rural centres, isolated productive buildings and big scale building complexes. The seamless urban expansion occurred during the last thirty years has been realized through the coagulation of low-density urban offshoots along main roads and it has radically altered the traditional spatial ratio between urbs and territorium, town and countryside, determining the substantial equivalence, in terms of covered surfaces, of urbanized spaces and open ones. The towns, no longer autonomous, finite and recognizable individualities, are gradually welding and they tend to formation of a polycentric urban entity that alludes to a in nuce city-region’s form. A series of highly specialized settlements were built along the main highways such as industrial and production sites, shopping centres, commercial and logistic devices. These clusters define a productive archipelago overlapping the diffused city's urban system, and they constitute, if we consider it within a regional scale design, a supra-municipal polarities system capable of standing as ordering structure for the development of the whole territorial context. The frequent under-utilization of productive sites, the presence of dismantled industrial complexes and the marginalization of agricultural activities allow us to propose an alternative development model for this area that can be focused on integration of agriculture and manufacturing, in terms of environmental sustainability and new technologies, to realize a smart and heterogeneous productive context. In the described scenario, contribution proposes a mixed-use urban sector, with tertiary and directional activities as prevalent uses, supporting productive compounds of Ager Campanus. The new settlement, as territorial benchmark and great catalyst, can collect and concentrate services related to agricultural and industrial production and to large scale commercial activities. The sector has a double territorial role: on one hand, it works as a big inter-provincial polarity in the context of the productive/commercial/logistic archipelago; on the other side it can be considered an impassable boundary for near Aversa conurbation, a threshold between urban and suburban that is represented by agricultural fields and extra-urban centralities.
A MIXED-USE URBAN SECTOR AS LARGE SCALE POLARITY IN A PRODUCTIVE ARCHIPELAGO
OLIVA G
2014
Abstract
Hackert’s landscape paintings realized in Eighteenth Century basically represent Ager Campanus territory, the big plain situated in Northern Campania between provinces of Naples and Caserta (Italy), as an agricultural landscape affected by a discontinuous urban system constituted by small rural centres, isolated productive buildings and big scale building complexes. The seamless urban expansion occurred during the last thirty years has been realized through the coagulation of low-density urban offshoots along main roads and it has radically altered the traditional spatial ratio between urbs and territorium, town and countryside, determining the substantial equivalence, in terms of covered surfaces, of urbanized spaces and open ones. The towns, no longer autonomous, finite and recognizable individualities, are gradually welding and they tend to formation of a polycentric urban entity that alludes to a in nuce city-region’s form. A series of highly specialized settlements were built along the main highways such as industrial and production sites, shopping centres, commercial and logistic devices. These clusters define a productive archipelago overlapping the diffused city's urban system, and they constitute, if we consider it within a regional scale design, a supra-municipal polarities system capable of standing as ordering structure for the development of the whole territorial context. The frequent under-utilization of productive sites, the presence of dismantled industrial complexes and the marginalization of agricultural activities allow us to propose an alternative development model for this area that can be focused on integration of agriculture and manufacturing, in terms of environmental sustainability and new technologies, to realize a smart and heterogeneous productive context. In the described scenario, contribution proposes a mixed-use urban sector, with tertiary and directional activities as prevalent uses, supporting productive compounds of Ager Campanus. The new settlement, as territorial benchmark and great catalyst, can collect and concentrate services related to agricultural and industrial production and to large scale commercial activities. The sector has a double territorial role: on one hand, it works as a big inter-provincial polarity in the context of the productive/commercial/logistic archipelago; on the other side it can be considered an impassable boundary for near Aversa conurbation, a threshold between urban and suburban that is represented by agricultural fields and extra-urban centralities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
