EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND URBAN PLANNING: POLICIES AND ACTIONS FOR THE VESUVIAN COASTAL AREA

The paper shows the results of a broader interdisciplinary work concerning risk assessment, analysis of emergency policies and development of project proposals for increasing urban and social resilience in the Vesuvian coastal area in the southern Italian region of Campania. In spite of the area’s outstanding cultural heritage, unregulated urban growth has produced extensive degradation due to high building density, abandoned industrial areas, fragmentation and isolation of its historical and archaeological heritage, poor maintenance of natural heritage and social degradation. The approach described in the paper aims at designing urban and landscape changes framing them within a single multidimensional process able to produce multi-target actions in order to satisfy different needs. It matches emergency needs with the demands of everyday life, and resilience with sustainable development, within a single urban and landscape design process.