2. Challenges for the implementation of Circular Economy for a new territorial planning perspective (Arjan Michelangelo)
Part I: The Spatial Dimension of Circularity
3. Evolving relations of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization towards circularity (Bruno De Meulder, Julie Marin, Kelly Shannon)
4. New urbanization phenomena and new potential landscapes (Enrico Formato)
5. Wastescapes as a structural concept for achieving circularity (Libera, Arjan)
Part II: Sustainable solutions and strategies for circular and healthy metabolisms
6. Wastescapes as spaces of opportunities. Collaborative processes in the re-activation of wastescapes (Anna Attademo and Gilda Berruti)
7. Urban regeneration: an “incremental circularity” perspective (Paolo Cottino, Dario Domante, Alice Franchina)
8. “Reloading Landscapes: a scenario for the case of Taranto”(Francesca Rizzetto – Fransje Hooimeijer)
9. Designing new soils through a systemic approach (Marina Rigillo)
Interlude: Box of examples/pictures of realised projects on wastescape regeneration (Libera)
Part III: Methodology and representation
10. Eliciting information for developing a circular economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, The Netherlands (Gustavo Arciniegas, Alexander Wandl)
11. The role of Living Labs in regenerative decision-making processes (Maria Cerreta)
Part IV: New definitions: a shared glossary
12. Territorialising circularity (Furlan Cecilia, Alexander Wandl)
13: Towards Circular Port-City Territories. Rotterdam as case study (Paolo De Martino)
14. Urban Living Labs - an impact tool to innovate, govern and investigate metropolitan challenges (Leendert Verhoef, Virpi Heybroek, Ellen van Bueren and Arjan van Timmeren)
15. Circular Metabolism: urban and territorial perspectives (Giulia Lucertini, Francesco Musco)
16. Risk Productivity. Inclusive and regenerative approaches within compromised contexts (Francesca Garzilli, Federica Vingelli, Valentina Vittiglio)
17. The Metabolic Urban Landscape (Chiara Mazzarella)
Interlude: Pictures for the glossary (curated by Libera)
Part V: Towards regenerative territories
18. Reprocities of cities and territories (Arjan, Michelangelo, Libera)
Libera Amenta is Postdoc Researcher in the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she teaches Urbanism at the Laboratory of Urbanism at the master level of the MAPA Course “Laurea Magistrale in Architettura Progettazione Architettonica”. She has been, until recently, Postdoc Researcher in the Department of Urbanism at TU Delft, The Netherlands, where she has been also Guest Researcher. Since 2016, she has been carrying out research on topics regarding the circular regeneration of wastescapes as a member of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 REPAiR project. Her latest book is “Beyond WASTESCAPES. Opportunities for sustainable urban and territorial regeneration”.
Arjan van Timmeren is Full Professor Environmental Technology & Design, within the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment and Department of Urbanism at Delft University of Technology (TUD). Besides of the TUD chair, he has also been (co-)founding scientific director and, as of September 2020, Principal Investigator at AMS Institute, a joint initiative by TUD, MIT and WUR - Institute for ‘Advanced Metropolitan Solutions’ - in Amsterdam, together with public and private stakeholders and citizen(platforms). He is the Academic Portfolio Director (APD) Sustainable Cities for TUD and has seats in several (inter)national steering groups, quality teams, scientific boards, special issue editorships and is lecturing all over the globe as expert and keynote speaker.
Michelangelo Russo is the Dean of the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where he is Full Professor of Urbanism. He coordinated—from 2013 until recently—the Doctorate School in Architecture in the same Department. He has been carrying out several funded research of national and international interest. From 2014 until 2018 he was the head of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU). He was the leader of the Neapolitan Team of the European project Horizon 2020 entitled: “REPAiR—Resource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism’’.
This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of wastescapes. The main focus is the development over time, and in particular the way how spatial planning and strategies respond to new unpredictable urgencies and opportunities related with territorial metabolisms. The book specifically focuses on living labs environments, where it is possible to tackle complex problems through a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach - including the use of digital spatial decision support environment – which could be able to include all the involved stakeholders. Through a spatial scope of circularity, this book describes several examples including among others ideas from different contexts such as Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Vietnam. Through including reflections on methodology and representation, as well as on solutions for circular and healthy metabolisms, the book provides an excellent resource to researchers and students.