NAPLES: The case of Scampia

Gaetano Mollura, City Council of Naples - Lead Partner – Project coordinator

WS4 Against Divided Cities in Europe URBACT Annual Conference COPENHAGEN 3-4 December 2012

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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 a surface of 1.171 km2

• Number of inhabitants (metropolitan area) 3.078.408 (2011)

Density 2 630,45 inh./kmq• Number of inhabitants (city area) 956.739 (2011)

deacreasing from 1971

Density 8.158,43 inh./kmq

• Unemployment rate17,8% (metropolitan area 2011- persons aged 15 years and over)

Introduction of the city/1

Industry

18,5%

building

10,2%

commerce

transport

31,6%

hotel/restaurant

6,9%

other

23%

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Building congestion

High automotive traffic

High dwelling density

Waste collection and disposal

Diffused micro criminality

Camorra organised criminality

Extortive racket

Usury

High rate of unemployment

Anthropic and environment risk

Introduction of the city

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Programma Straordinario per l’Edilizia Residenziale

Quadro degli interventi nel Comune di Napoli

The problem neighborhood: Scampia/1

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The problem neighborhood: Scampia/3

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•Within a very deprived context there are several vital worlds in the Rioni and different levels of segregation

•Scampia district is a complex reality

The problem neighborhood: Scampia/4

Popolazione residente

totale

Abitazioni totale

StanzeAbitazioni

occupate da residenti

Abitazioni in proprietà

Abitazioni in fitto

41.350 10916 49131 10548 3051 6979

Fonte: Istat 2001 28,9 66,2

•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 

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Different lots, “rioni” and socio-geographic insulae in Scampia

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“Vele”

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Demolition of two “Vele” in the lot L

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New housing blocks in Scampia (replacing the “Vele”)Renovation of the street side, commercial skirting, small equipments

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Alloggi IACP Scampia:

le stecche alte

Cooperative housing in Scampia; monoblock for low middle class

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Alloggi PSER lot P, 270 apartmentsCase dei Puffi

Prefabricated, concentration of delinquency

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"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,

Intervention of connection to the metro station

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.

Policy interventions/1

-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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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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The civil society, the “Third Sector”, le Parrocchie (Parishes)

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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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