Matteo SCAMPORRINO
(DIDA, University of Florence, Italy)
Keywords: Port, regeneration, heritage
Abstract:
The urban and regional structures of Livorno have a naucentric genesis, that characterized local landscape, heritage and identity.
The port of Livorno has not a zoning area between port and city, including production facilities and historical heritage, integration and interaction are total, but it cannot turn into a conflict in view of port.
In the last twenty years the cruise and containerships traffic in Italy, as elsewhere in the world, has increased a lot. The current debate focuses mainly on the assessments of negative environmental ah landscape effects as opposed to positive economic ones. The research is taking place at the Port Authority of Livorno in collaboration with the University of Florence in prospect of the new plan of the port.
The goal is to build a new regeneration of the link between city and port. If the physical point of view the current system makes it difficult, the same cannot be said of the image of the city, of its landscape and its recognizability. In this research we are experimenting with innovative tools based on 3D GIS in support of a methodology to measure and know the intervisibility of the elements of heritage in the transformation.
Simulations and models, doesn’t want to have as only results a better assessment of the projects and support the decision of urban planning and landscape (DSS), but also allow to inform population and public actors the changes taking place by opening a discussion about a common basis. This latter outcome is supported by a process of participation, made also with an innovative photographic online survey, which allows to map the interest of citizenship is compared to the elements of patrimony, allowing to enrich in a qualitative manner the quantitative 3D GIS intervisibility model analysis.