1. WIT CONFERENCE - SUSTAINABLE CITY 2014 – Siena 25 September 2014
OPPORTUNITIES FOR URBAN FARMING
The case study of the San Martino hill in Naples, Italy
Marina Rigillo
Maria Cristina Vigo Majello
Department of Architecture (DiARC), University of Naples, Federico II
WIT CONFERENCE - SUSTAINABLE CITY 2014 – Siena 25 September 2014

2. OBJECT
The study deals with the RECOVERY of the urban NATURAL SOILS specially focusing on the REMNANTS of the former agricultural one
The study discusse a demostration project and it aims at assessing the viability of managing agricultural use in urban areas in order to protect natural soils and updating both urban and ecological services through a non convencional public service policy

3. CONNECTED ISSUES AND ASSUMPTION
INTEGRATED PROJECT FOR FACING CLIMATE CHANGE
BALANCING RURAL TO URBAN RELATIONSHIP
PROMOTE SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT
PROVIDE JOB OPPORTUNITIES
ENHANCE CITY RESILIENCY
AND ASSUMPTION
(city is) complex, adaptive socioecological systems in which the delivery of eco system services links society and ecosystems at multiple scales
(Grimm et al, 2008)

4. ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT

5. URBAN BENEFITS SCARSE SOCIAL SECURITY CROPS ABANDONMENT COSTS FOR SOIL
MAINTENANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL
RISK

6. INTEGRATED AGRICULTURAL SERVICES

7. NATURAL SOIL AND URBAN SOIL
The biggest difference between natural and urban soils is in the physical structure of it. The genesis of the urban soils comes from the melting of different materials in different times (waste, raw material, construction waste). Thus not every soils are adequate to agricultural use

8. SOIL LAYERS
Fertile Soil: it is the most superficial one, Here is the humus layer, reach of minerals and nutritive materials
Superficial Soil: it is the layer that works for performing the water cycle and for stocking carbon and other organic substances
Deep Soil, it is the layer that models and stabilizes the site.

9. LOOKING FOR SOILS FIT FOR THE URBAN FARMING PRELIMINARY CHECK SIZE
ADJACENT LAND USE
LANDMARKING

10. SAN MARTINO HILL

11. LAND COVER

12. LAND USE

13. HISTORICAL LAND USE 13

14. CULTURAL ROOTS
It is essential to understand the city as a form derived in the first istance from geological and biological evolution existing as a SUM of natural process ADAPTED by man. It is also necessary to perceive the HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT of the city as a consequence of cultural adaptation reflected in the plan of the city and its constituent both individually and in groups
(Ian McHarg, 1969)

15. AGRICULTURAL POTENTIAL

16. ADJACENT LAND USE:
THE STAIR-STREET EXCLUSIVE

17. PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL AREA
WASTE MANAGEMENT ON THE STAIR STREET
WASTE
COLLECT ON
VIA PEDAMENTINA
EMPLOYER ASIA
USER
GARBAGE
USER
LANDFILL
GLASS
PLASTIC/
ALUMINUM
PROJECT
PAPER
GLASS
COLLECT ON
CVE
EMPLOYER ASIA
UTENTE
GARBAGE
PLASTIC/
ALUMINUM
PRIVATE EMPLOYER
LANDFILL
WASTE
COMPOSTER
PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL AREA
ORGANIC 17

18. EXISTINTING SLIDING RISK

19. METHODOLOGY Step 1: LAND USE + LAND COVER + HISTORIACAL MAP
P1: AGRICULTURAL POTENTIAL
ADJACENT LAND USE
EXISTITING RISK
Step 2: RISK EVALUATION
P2: EFFECTIVE
AGRICULTURAL POTENTIAL
P3: FIRST PROJECT PROPOSAL

20. P3: FIRST PROJECT PROPOSAL

21. EXPECTED RESULTS OF THE PROJECT
REDUCING SOIL LOSS
MAINTAIN ECOLOGICAL SERVICES IN URBAN AREAS
IMPROVING REAL ESTATE VALUES ON THE STAIR STREET
ASSESSING A NEW MODEL OF PUBLIC/ PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP 21

22. ASSESSING VIABILITY OF THE PROJECT PROPOSAL

23. URBAN FARM MANAGEMENT

24. PRIVATE ACTORS: Residents:
• Maintenance and cleaning of public stairway; • Increased security given by the agricultural park garrison social returns; • Products of the earth; • Products derived from cultures of the orchard; • A private garden in the heart of the city.
CROPS OWENERS:
• Maintenance and cleaning of the crops
• incoming money; • reduce cost;
PUBLIC ACTORS:
The City of Naples:
• Maintenance and cleaning of a public urban space; • Development of local BP; • Promotion of integrated waste management
• Improve air quality; • Soil protection
The ASIA • Reduction of costs due to a situation complicated logistically 24

25. CONCLUSION NOT SOLVED PROBLEMS: SOIL POLLUTION
INVOLVEMENT OF NAPLES MUNICIPALITY
INVOLVEMENT OF PUBLIC WASTE SERVICE MANAGEMENT
OPENING:
PROTOCOLS FOR URBAN NATURAL SOIL REMEDIATION
NO FOOD PRODUCTION SERVICES
INVOLVEMENT OF PRIVATE INVESTORS

26. AWARD 26

27. Maria Cristina Majello
Thank you
Marina Rigillo
Maria Cristina Majello