Empty spaces and sustainable reutilization: the ex Hospital in Pozzuoli and Piazza Mercato in Naples

Abstract

The radical economic changes in advanced countries in ’70 years of last century have changed the spatial distribution of the tertiary activities and of the infrastructures with the shakeout of the productive activities and the creation of empty spaces. The deterioration of the ecosystems and the highest risk for the population required a sustainable urban planning striving for regenerate and revitalize these areas which constitute real development opportunities. This study wants understand if the planning policies of today tend toward the development of two empty spaces: the ex Hospital “Umberto di Savoia” in Pozzuoli and Piazza Mercato in Naples, or, on the contrary, wants to suggest some ways of sustainable reutilization of these areas. These evaluations are difficult falling a national census of empty spaces. This analysis , in fact, forms a part of a research project in the works on the empty spaces in the province of Naples.