Innovative Strategies for Urban Regeneration in Coastal Areas - the Case Study of the Metropolitan Coast of Naples

Naples is a complex and controversial metropolitan city and so is its relation with the sea. In order to overcome the negative phase in which the city is going through and start a process of growth and development, recovering maritime identity may open new perspectives and enable the identification of development and urban regeneration processes. In this context, new collaborative methods of lateral participations are taking hold - as an alternative to vertical models - through which realizing urban transformations, recognizing the sea as common good. A process innovation which enables the realization of more effective strategies for city regeneration, through new forms of participation, integrated into technological innovations. The paper analyzes the case study of New York City waterfront regeneration where, by sharing its maritime culture, collaborative urban transformations were realized also with the support of the ICT. As Jeremy Rifkin exposed [1], the idea is to create "collaborative commons", aimed at requalifying and promoting the metropolitan coast of Naples, which should come away from juridical-political-administrative perspective and, in the light of maritime culture, enhancing its regeneration.