The tourist development of Pompeii: resilient solutions to rebuild a dialogue between fluvial landscape and urban spaces

The paper is framed in the preamble of the strategic masterplan developed by the Neapolitans Association of Builders and Industrial Union of Naples for extra-moenia redevelopment of Pompeii as a cultural tourist district in the area between the ancients ruins and the sea (ports of Torre Annunziata and Castellammare), and reports on a research activity carried out in the framework of a PRIN project . The “Grande Pompei” Promoting Committee does not advance a clear project proposal nor a planning although some suggestions deserve a deepening: to reconnect the ancient Pompeii to the sea; to check the feasibility of a waterway; to join existing resources through a wide buffer zone that fulfils tourist facilities but also services – because this area has inadequate services. From these basis we will explore the possibility to adapt the Sarno river as a green and blue infrastructure (European Commission, 2011) that re-create the backbone of the district, deepening also a proposal on the mouth of Sarno as waterfront receiving tourists from the sea. The historical-geographical reading of Sarno's river territory is the necessary analytical phase to implement the principles of design with nature of U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency, based on the practices of green infrastructure most suitable to improve the hydraulic balance of the territory (Moccia, Coppola, 2012; Moccia, Sgobbo, 2013a). We will present a critical analysis of the various project proposals advanced for this territory and we will focus on some resilient project finalized to rebuild the broken dialogue between fluvial spaces and urban spaces and re-shape the natural landscape in which to frame an efficient cultural and tourist offer for Pompeii.