From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach

  In the city of Messina, the multiplicity of vulnerable situations is a distinctive feature and is representative of the pervasiveness of the risk conditions present in the Italian territory. The critical residential tissues are part of an extended geography in which, to the conditions of seismi...

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Main Authors: Giovanna Ferramosca, Anna Terracciano
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Language:English
Published: Alanya Üniversitesi 2023-11-01
Series:Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
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description   In the city of Messina, the multiplicity of vulnerable situations is a distinctive feature and is representative of the pervasiveness of the risk conditions present in the Italian territory. The critical residential tissues are part of an extended geography in which, to the conditions of seismic and hydro geomorphological vulnerability, are added additional criticalities including altered natural resources, abandoned infrastructure, brownfields, quarries, and unregulated landfills, etc. Despite this, for Messina, there is still no urban planning tool capable of interpreting in an integrated way the risks present, which instead continue to be addressed on an emergency basis and individually, without considering the interactions that are generated and of further damage. For these reasons, Messina was chosen as a prototypical case study, at the national level, to start an experimentation aimed at developing an urban planning tool capable of a new integrated approach to risk interpretation and management. In this process, a decisive role was aimed at building an updated knowledge of the territory through the identification of widespread critical conditions using multiple GIS tools and thanks to the interaction of some analytical-specialist readings from different sources. The results of this process are represented in a system of maps that are strongly integrated with each other and constitute a working document for the interdisciplinary group drafting the General Urban Plan.
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spelling doaj-art-1cb1601eddad4a92befde8ea01ea2b092025-08-20T02:24:25ZengAlanya ÜniversitesiJournal of Contemporary Urban Affairs2475-61642023-11-0172From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk ApproachGiovanna Ferramosca0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6479-2099Anna Terracciano1https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9614-4214DiARC - Department of Architecture, University of Naples “Federico II, ItalyUniversità degli studi di Napoli "FEDERICO II"   In the city of Messina, the multiplicity of vulnerable situations is a distinctive feature and is representative of the pervasiveness of the risk conditions present in the Italian territory. The critical residential tissues are part of an extended geography in which, to the conditions of seismic and hydro geomorphological vulnerability, are added additional criticalities including altered natural resources, abandoned infrastructure, brownfields, quarries, and unregulated landfills, etc. Despite this, for Messina, there is still no urban planning tool capable of interpreting in an integrated way the risks present, which instead continue to be addressed on an emergency basis and individually, without considering the interactions that are generated and of further damage. For these reasons, Messina was chosen as a prototypical case study, at the national level, to start an experimentation aimed at developing an urban planning tool capable of a new integrated approach to risk interpretation and management. In this process, a decisive role was aimed at building an updated knowledge of the territory through the identification of widespread critical conditions using multiple GIS tools and thanks to the interaction of some analytical-specialist readings from different sources. The results of this process are represented in a system of maps that are strongly integrated with each other and constitute a working document for the interdisciplinary group drafting the General Urban Plan. https://ijcua.com/ijcua/article/view/387Urban MetabolismVulnerabilityEnvironmentIntegrated RisksUrban and Social Regeneration
spellingShingle Giovanna Ferramosca
Anna Terracciano
From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
Urban Metabolism
Vulnerability
Environment
Integrated Risks
Urban and Social Regeneration
title From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
title_full From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
title_fullStr From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
title_full_unstemmed From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
title_short From Urban Vulnerabilities to Resilience: Lessons from Messina's Integrated Risk Approach
title_sort from urban vulnerabilities to resilience lessons from messina s integrated risk approach
topic Urban Metabolism
Vulnerability
Environment
Integrated Risks
Urban and Social Regeneration
url https://ijcua.com/ijcua/article/view/387
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