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Unexpected Developments Global effectson premises. NaplesMetropolitan Region. ESU

ABSTRACT

This paper based my research on the relation between the local and the global in the metropolitan region and tries to clarify, looking at the case of Naples, the consequences of regional strategies considering the unexpected effects of global choices on the local city growth.

In 2010 Naples lies on a huge conurbation: the high-way infrastructures reduced the distance, increasing the accessibility of the region but without building a clear relation with the surroundings; as a consequence the city sprawls messing up the previous rural structure. At the same time, the industrial areas produced visible fractures on the configuration of the territory.

An important fact is that nowadays and worldwide, we are assisting to the replacement of the industrial sector with global services and transport; commercial activities are transforming the landscape, finding their location in places that have well defined characteristics: big plots, high visibility, global connectivity and easy accessibility. In Naples they have been established in the same area where agriculture, industries and residential suburbs have already layered. Even though, here, they symbolize territorial references: “land-marks” (Lynch, 2006) .

If the city can be described “as points of articulation and of translation between different extensive layers of the multi-scaled urban ‘cake’“ (Read, 2007) it will not be astonishing to discover, in Naples Metropolitan Area, new peripheral commercial centralities on the trucks of an old roman street. This synergy, raised in some urban nodes, is the result of a slow bottom-up process. Meanwhile, as the opposite bottom-up development, and as a consequence of the industrial sector reorganization, faster global dynamics create “new centralities” producing effects at the local scale and increasing the fragmentation. Moreover, it must be taken into account that these layers and processes are not only restricted to physical networks but they are shaped also by economical and social interactions, and that a network is always global and local in all its points (Latour, Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d'anthropologie symétrique, 1991)

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