Harbourscape: Between Specialization and Public Space

Talking about urban waterfronts and port areas, landscape, and public space are key notions in a contemporary debate about cities. The waterfront is a liminal urban area, an extraordinary gateway between artifice and nature, where the city traditionally represents itself on the edge between land and water. This chapter defines Naples like an harbourscape in which historical identity, urban functions, and socio-economic relationship can produce a new landscape founded on the harbor-urban identity. The chapter at last defines five strategies to regenerate Naples city-port area in order to realise the new harbourscape.