Presentation for the workshop "Against Divided Cities in Europe" of URBACT Annual Conference 2012. Author: Gaetano Mollura, City Council of Naples

1. WS4 Against Divided Cities in Europe
URBACT Annual Conference COPENHAGEN 3-4 December 2012
NAPLES: The case of Scampia
Gaetano Mollura, City Council of Naples - Lead Partner – Project coordinator

2. Introduction of the city/1
City of Naples/Location
Naples is the third largest city of Italy. It’s the capital city of the
Campania Region / Italy, the metropolitan area of Naples counts
Industry
a surface of 1.171 km2
18,5%
• Number of inhabitants (metropolitan area) 3.078.408 building
(2011) 10,2%
Density 2 630,45 inh./kmq commerce
• Number of inhabitants (city area) 956.739 (2011) transport
deacreasing from 1971 31,6%
Density 8.158,43 inh./kmq hotel/restaurant
6,9%
• Unemployment rate17,8% (metropolitan area 2011- other
persons aged 15 years and over) 23%
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3. Introduction of the city
Anthropic and environment risk
 Building  High rate of
congestion unemployment
 Diffused micro
 High dwelling criminality
density
 Extortive racket
 High automotive
traffic  Usury
 Camorra
 Waste collection organised
and disposal criminality
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4. The problem neighborhood: Scampia/1
Programma Straordinario per l’Edilizia
Residenziale
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Quadro degli interventi nel Comune di Napoli

5. The problem neighborhood: Scampia/3
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6. The problem neighborhood: Scampia/4
•Scampia district is a complex reality
•Within a very deprived context there are
several vital worlds in the Rioni and different
levels of segregation
•After the second world Housing Urban
National Policies have strongly changed in
Naples, especially neighbourhoods all around
the ancient town.
•Around these neighbourhoods - since
sixties - grew up almost illegal sprawl
•The level of degradation of the areas at the
margin of the consolidated city is increasing
Abitazioni
Popolazione Abitazioni in
Abitazioni totale Stanze occupate da Abitazioni in fitto
residente totale proprietà
residenti
41.350 10916 49131 10548 3051 6979
Fonte: Istat 2001 28,9 66,2
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7. Different lots, “rioni” and socio-geographic
insulae in Scampia
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8. “Vele”
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9. Demolition of two “Vele” in the lot L
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10. New housing blocks in Scampia (replacing the “Vele”)
Renovation of the street side, commercial skirting, small equipments
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11. Cooperative housing in Scampia; monoblock for low middle class
Alloggi IACP
Scampia:
le stecche alte
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12. Alloggi PSER lot P, 270 apartments
Case dei Puffi
Prefabricated, concentration of delinquency
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13. Policy interventions/1
"Program for the redevelopment of Scampia
district” :
• Removal of some of the Vele
• new construction of buildings located on the edge of
the lots, with plinths for businesses
 926 new flats
 139 additional flats will be built
 It is still OPEN the debate about the demolition of
the remaining Vele,
 Change of use and assignment of public spaces to local Cooperatives
 Public spaces intended use former "pole craft
 Location in of a service center , Centre for Employment and other departments of the
Municipality.
Cultural centers, managed by NGOs such as the theater Arrevuoto.
 Intervention of connection to the metro station
-Building of a new faculty of Medicin and Surgery (Accordo Regione Campania Comune
e Università)
-Rehabilitation of the area now occupied by a Rom camp in Cupa Perillo and opening of
a partecipat proces for the project of new housing
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14. Monitoring and evaluation of the outcomes
Patto per Scampia
All previous described activities are included in a last
initiative of the City Council (9 November 2012):
• political administrative act called “ Patto per Scampia”:
for integrated actions
• part of a more complex agreement approved by the City
Council called “ Patto per Napoli sicura”, against
illegality!
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15. The civil society, the “Third Sector”, le Parrocchie (Parishes)
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16. Key questions /challenges
First question /challenge: could a different quality of architecture
avoid the segregation of the neighbourhoods of the city and how
could the image of estate be improved without demolition?
Second question /challenge: how can social and cultural
initiatives, in the framework of the actual economical crisis,
contribute to the rehabilitation of deprived areas involving the new
generation to build up a different and positive future?
Third question/challenge: could the culture of the university
population be a tool to realize a social “mixitè” in a segregated
quarter, thus obtaining a real positive impact on the local
population?
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