An Integrated Approach to Sub-Surface Water Pathways for the Sustainable Development of the Architectural Landscape of Agro-Urban Areas

Alessandra Como, Albina Cuomo and Luisa Smeragliuolo Perrotta ()
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Alessandra Como: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Albina Cuomo: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
Luisa Smeragliuolo Perrotta: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-26

Abstract: This paper presents the results of multidisciplinary research which addresses the issue of sustainability within the design of urban agricultural landscapes through the joint solution of architecture and hydro-geomorphology for the management, accessibility and use of urban agricultural landscapes. If the traditional separation between urban and productive land has now been overcome by the inclusion of agricultural areas within the cities, what is still under discussion is how to make its planning sustainable, especially in densely urbanized contexts. This research was developed with a methodology able to combine different types of data in order to satisfy needs relating to the availability of water for land supply and to make this landscape—both rural and urban—accessible to the city. Historical traces, interpretative insights, and hydro-geomorphological reading models of the territory were analysed. Their interweaving has made it possible to develop a prototype of a water and landscape infrastructure that combines a system for subsurface water, cycle–pedestrian paths and small-scale architecture features around the water tanks. The research has been tested in the city of Pozzuoli (NA) in Southern Italy, within the Monteruscello neighbourhood. The result led to a design solution of an integrated system which contributes to implementing the green transition within cities.

Keywords: hydro-geomorphology; agro-urban landscape; integrated infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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