Suburban Landscape and Public Housing: The Post-Occupancy Evaluation as a Tool for Built Environment Regeneration: A Case Study in the City of Naples, Italy

Luca Borriello, Fabiana Forte, Yvonne Russo () and Silvia Scardapane
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Luca Borriello: INWARD—National Observatory on Urban Creativity, 80147 Napoli, Italy
Fabiana Forte: Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Caserta, Italy
Yvonne Russo: Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Caserta, Italy
Silvia Scardapane: INWARD—National Observatory on Urban Creativity, 80147 Napoli, Italy

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-28

Abstract: The European Landscape Convention (ELC) acknowledges that the landscape is an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere, in urban areas and the countryside, in degraded areas as well as higher quality areas and recognized as being of outstanding beauty, as well as in everyday areas. Nowadays, many suburbs, arisen as public housing neighborhoods and originally located in peri-urban areas, in addition to constituting a substantial part of the built heritage, are increasingly being configured as new strategic areas, redefining the daily landscape of its users. With the post-occupancy evaluation method (POE), it is possible to assess several aspects of the performance of buildings or open spaces from the users’ perspective, taking into consideration objective and subjective factors. It is a multi-method approach, combining interviews, customer satisfaction surveys, behavioral observation, etc. With this perspective, the article, dealing with the ‘Parco dei Murales’, which is a complex of public housing localized in the Ponticelli suburb in the city of Naples (Italy), aims to understand the visual and qualitative perception of the suburban landscape in the light of the transformation processes that have occurred in recent years. For this purpose, starting from the results of the first application of a user satisfaction survey, the post occupancy evaluation has been applied, analyzing the functional, social, and perceptual attributes of the open spaces of the park.

Keywords: creative suburban landscape; built environment; post occupancy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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