The city as a complex system in structural crisis

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/8696
Keywords: Complexity theory, Government of urban system, Multivariate statistical analysis

Abstract

Evergreen section

This article was published in Italian in 1995 with the title “La città come sistema complesso in crisi strutturale” as a contribution in the volume Bertuglia, S.C., Fuccella, R. & Sartorio, G. (eds), La città come sistema complesso in crisi strutturale: strumenti e tecniche per il governo metropolitano, Giuffrè, Milano. The book is included in the Studi Urbanistici series published by Fondazione Aldo Della Rocca and it can be consulted, in its original version, at the following address: https://www.fondazionedellarocca.it/

We thank the President Gian Aldo Della Rocca for having authorized the publication of the research in English. The paper in this new section of TeMA Journal, Evergreen, is the literal English translation. This section aims at drawing the attention of the international scientific community to papers that, despite the passing of time, still present elements of significative scientific interest – insights, anticipations and reflections – enough to deserve careful read back.

Abstract

The paper aims to be a contribution to the resolution of the deep crisis that has been affecting the current urban realities, facing the problem in all of its aspects, such as those of scientific and methodological approach and operating procedures. In other terms, the awareness of the priority of the “city problem” on a national and international scale makes it necessary, not only the re-examination of the procedures by which urban phenomena have been faced until today, but also and firstly the “way of seeing” the city, and therefore the philosophy of approach to the urban issue.

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Author Biographies

Rocco Papa, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

Emeritus of Land Use Planning at the University of Naples Federico II. Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific Journal TeMA - Land Use, Mobility and Environment since 2007. Director of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DiPiST) of the University Federico II of Naples, from 1999 to 2005. Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Naples, from 2001 to 2006. City Councilor for Livability (appointed to Town Planning and Historical Centre) for the Naples Municipality, from 1997 to 2006. Research activity, carried out continuously since 1974, has developed according to the following four main lines: the study of the interactions between urban and mobility systems; the management and governance of metropolitan areas; the safeguard of environmental quality in highly urbanized areas; the experimentation of new protocols for urban planning tools connected with the updating of techniques, methods and models of analyses, interpretation, planning and governance of territory. As City Councilor for Livability (appointed to Town Planning and Historical Centre) for the Naples Municipality he has developed in detail the following projects: the approval and implementation of the new Master Plan of Naples, the restoration and requalification of the “Real Albergo dei Poveri” and of the “SS. Trinità delle Monache”, the implementation of the Line 1 and Line 6 of the Metropolitan Railway. He is the author of more than 150 publications.

Rosaria Battarra, National Research Council, Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean, Naples

Architect, since 1998 researcher of the National Research Council - Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies (ISSM). She carries out her research activity at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, developing research on the issues of urban renewal and how to implement urban transformation actions. More recently, the research interest has turned to the themes of governance of the metropolitan city, in the light of the increasingly widespread use of the "smart city" paradigm. She is adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. From 2007 to 2014 she was head of the Department of Planning and Real Estate of the Urban Transformation Company Bagnolifutura S.p.A.. She is author of numerous papers presented at national and international conferences and over 40 publications.

Romano Fistola, Department of Engineering, University of Sannio

Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio. Master Science with honors at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. He was fellow and temporary researcher at the Institute of Planning and Land Management of the National Research Council of Italy (MISM) and has been of the contractor University of Naples Federico II University of Pavia, adjunct professor at the University of Naples Federico II. He was permanent researcher at the Institute of Planning and Land Management of the National Research Council of Italy (Naples) from 1996 to 2003 and member of the Scientific TIP of the institute. Since 2004 he is researcher (ICAR/20 scientific field) at the University of Sannio, Department of Engineering. He was a visiting researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) under the direction of prof. J.B. Goddard and served as lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London and at the European Masters (MSc): "Regional Policies and Development in Europe”, University of Graz. In 2005 he was elected member of the Board of the Italian Regional Science (AISR), in which role he was reelected until 2010. Since 2004 he holds the course "Technology Planning" at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sannio and teaches in the integrated course of "integrated town planning and transport". He teaches "Geographical Information Science" at the PhD in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II". He collaborated at several researches in the field of urban and regional planning, financed by CNR and by the MIUR. He collaborated with the Department of Town and Country Planning of the University of Naples “Federico II”. He is currently member of the National Institute of Urban Planning and designated as the auditor of the INU Campania.

Carmela Gargiulo, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II

Full professor of Urban Planning Techniques at the University of Naples Federico II. Since 1987 she has been involved in studies on the management of urban and territorial transformations. Since 2004, she has been Member of the Researcher Doctorate in Hydraulic, Transport and Territorial Systems Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests focus on the processes of urban requalification, on relationships between urban transformations and mobility, and on the estate exploitation produced by urban transformations. On these issues she has coordinated many research groups as scientific manager of operational units or as principal investigator of competitive projects. As scientific manager of the Dicea-University of Naples Federico II operative unit: “Impacts of mobility policies on urban transformability, environment and real estate market” from 2011 to 2013, as part of the PRIN project; Cariplo Foundation project “MOBILAGE. Mobility and aging: support networks for daily life and welfare at the neighbourhood level "2018-2020; ERASMUS + Key Action2: Project "Development of a Master Program in the Management of Industrial Entrepreneurship for Transition Countries" (MIETC), with European and Asian partners 2020-2022. As Principal Investigator of the Smart Energy Master Project for territorial energy management funded by PON 04A2_00120 R&C Axis II, from 2012 to 2015. Author of over 150 publications.

Published
2021-12-30
How to Cite
PapaR., BattarraR., FistolaR., & GargiuloC. (2021). The city as a complex system in structural crisis. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 14(3), 455-491. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/8696
Issue
Vol 14 No 3 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
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Evergreen

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