Landscape design in regeneration and accessibility process to cultural heritage. The study case of Liternum Archaeological Park for the Domitio-Flegreo Coast

Abstract

This paper reflects on the role that historical-archaeological heritage and its relations with the landscape can assume in the socio-spatial regeneration processes affecting the urban and peri-urban dynamics of societies and territories in “transition.” In particular, projects and strategies for the protection, accessibility and enjoyment of heritage, can offer an opportunity for a project of landscape and production of contemporary, attractive and multifunctional public space, in which what is being affirmed is a new form of the public city, and more generally of a renewed welfare, beyond the mere preservation and to the transmission of the preserved assets. In the design experimentation developed for the Archaeological Park of Liternum, on the shores of Lake Patria, it was a matter of subtracting the archaeological area from its condition as a place separated from the city in order to prefigure a broader urban use (Manacorda, 2007), starting from the design of the paths of an expanded fruition capable of sequencing the archaeological remains, with the landscape and the spaces and dynamics of the city with which they establish fertile relations within a possible collaborative governance with the actors of the context.

Keywords: cultural heritage, transition, public space, landscape, accessibility