Rethinking the city of Sarno: sustainable regeneration strategies/ Ripensare la città di Sarno: strategie di rigenerazione sostenibile

The increasingly complex challenges that characterize contemporary territories, and which involve different spatial, environmental and socio-economic dimensions, bring to light the need for an integrated and sustainable perspective for urban planning. To respond to the needs of the territory in terms of resilience to climate change and optimization of resource use, approaches such as those of circular urban metabolism (Lucertini & Musco, 2020; Russo & van Timmeren, 2022) and the circular economy (Kirchherr et al., 2017) play a central role. The city is considered a living organism characterized by reciprocity and dynamic interactions between nature, urban areas, hinterland, and settled communities (van Timmeren et al., 2013: 20).The Urban Planning module, through the integration of the concepts of urban metabolism and circular economy, contributes to the definition of more sustainable and resilient cities, in which wastescape (REPAiR 2018) represents the resources to rebuild the dynamic balance that has been altered over time. The course focuses on the analysis and mapping of complex interactions between the urban fabric and the environmental system with the aim of providing critical tools for re-reading wastescape. The latter are exploited as strategic resources for the development of innovative solutions for contemporary urban design. The case study is the city of Sarno, in the province of Salerno, explored through surveys, mapping exercises and design vision elaborations.