Abstract
The international attention for climate change has marked a turn for urban planning, and demands for a radical change of direction. It is necessary to adopt an active approach aiming to an ecological urban reform that identifies natural alterations of urban settlements and works for the restoration of natural balance. Assuming such an approach is an even more difficult challenge in urban areas, where urbanization processes frequently modified natural cycles, erasing the bonds with natural environment.Recognizing the importance of the water cycle for the life of urban ecosystems entails leaving water disposal methods aside and working hard to bring the hydrographical system of urbanized areas back to the surface, allowing the retrieval of the whole complex of ecosystem services related to environment mosaics in which water is present.The research is concerned with the eastern plain of Naples - originally a marshland, progressively urbanized for industrial purposes during the XIX and XX centuries, nowadays degraded after the closure of most of the factories - where environmental decline can be interpreted as an opportunity for testing water-centered strategies of landscape restoration and naturalizing in urban contexts.
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For a review of the evolution and application of terminology surrounding urban drainage, see Fletcher et al. (2015).
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According to Talen (2002, p. 308), “the transect can be thought of as an environmentally conceived approach to urban design. Whereas traditional urban design is usually thought of as having nothing to do with t health (Frey 1999), the transect situates urban design within an environmental framework”.
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The other selected parameters are population density, lot coverage ratio, the presence of permeable or potentially permeable areas, and roof typologies. For a detailed insight, see Berruti et al. (2013, pp. 167–171).
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Moccia, F.D., Berruti, G. (2018). Strategies of Landscape Restoration and City Naturalizing. In: Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65581-9_33
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