Operationalizing the Circular City Model for Naples City-Port: A Hybrid Development Strategy

Abstract

The city-port involves a decisive reality for the economic development of the territories and nations, capable of significantly influencing the conditions of well-being and quality of life, and of making the Circular City Model operational, preserving and enhancing seas and marine resources in a sustainable way, through the construction of appropriate production and consumption models, with attention to relations with the urban and territorial system. The Circular Economy paradigm identifies the ideal context in the city-port to rethink traditional development models and make ports driver areas for the regeneration of the city and metropolitan territories, in compliance with the EU Directive 2014/89 which considers maritime spatial planning as a tool for public authorities and stakeholders to achieve an integrated approach, promoting the development of maritime and coastal economies and the sustainable use of resources. The paper, starting from these assumptions, presents an adaptive decision-making process for the strategies development of the Naples (Italy) commercial port, aimed at re-establishing a sustainable city-port relationship and making operative Circular Economy principles.

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“…A massive experimentation with collaborative processes has already been promoted all over the world to improve the urban environment while preserving the environment and the health of citizens (Mukhtar-Landgren et al, 2019;UN DESA, 2023). Also at the European level, with the aim of accelerating the urban transition to CE, the empowerment of urban communities has been encouraged and promoted, through their involvement in collaborative decision-making processes (Cerreta et al, 2020). The operational tool that can help to achieve greater stakeholders participation and social cohesion is the Urban Living Lab (ULL) (Aernouts et al, 2020).…”