STOP&GO. Il riuso delle aree industriali dismesse in Italia. Trenta casi studio

The text is the outcome of the interdisciplinary research activity “For a catalogue of vacant industrial sites: strategies, typologies, geographies between re-use and sustainability” carried out with the contribution of the Ministry of Education, of the University and Research (Miur), as part of the Young Researchers Project, and Compagnia Generale Ripreseaeree Spa Parma (Guido Callegari, scientific project leader). This book provides an overview of the situation of vacant industrial sites and of problems and opportunities tied to this phenomenon, proposing a critical analysis starting from the Eighties when this process first became perceptible and continuing with a description of a broad selection of project case studies and also suggesting a rich bibliography. This work aims to delineate and provide a general overview of the state of the art of this issue by drafting a reference critical outline applied to the Italian situation in order to analyse issues, approaches and stakeholders of recent transformation processes. The volume comprises three parts: - the first focusses on various aspects of this phenomenon through four contributions: the "geography" of the transformation, its rapport with traditional architecture and urban culture, the role of complex urban programmes and also the debate on issues such as environmental sustainability - the second presents a selection of 30 projects already implemented or in course, described in form of monographic reports in order to compare various information and data regarding the history of the sites, procedures, town planning instruments, morphology, type and quantity involved in the related transformation processes - the third part comprises various contributions furnished by stakeholders in the debate on requalification of these areas, forming, each with its own peculiarities, an emblematic sample group: Carlo Alberto Barbieri, Silvano Bassetti, Andreas Kipar, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Carlo Puri Negri, Dionisio Vianello, thus completing the general outline revealed by analysis of the case studies.