Aversa towards a new instrument of territorial governance: a proposal

Aversa is a municipality in the province of Caserta of about 53.000 inhabitants. In reference to Aversa, the Territorial Plan of Provincial Coordination, PTCP, has highlighted a deficit of public space and a huge denied territory; moreover, it has set as objective a requalification of the urban fabric. The city has a precious historical heritage, decisive for the future social and economic development of the territory. This is the reason why in 2000 it was involved in a Recovery Plan of the historical centre, whose aim was the functional, urban and building requalification of the same, thus stopping this degradation through actions attentive to the social, cultural and economic condition of the historical centre. The municipality, today, is still endowed with a General Regulatory Plan of 2001, but notwithstanding this, with the Regional Law n. 16/2004, the Campania Region has introduced the Municipal Urban Plan, PUC, a general urban planning instrument of the municipality, which regulates the environmental protection, the urban and building transformations of the municipal territory. The various administrations that have taken turns, have tried to bring Aversa towards a PUC, but to date we are still far from having a new instrument to govern the territory. The paper thus reconstructs the urban planning of the municipality, with particular attention to the historical centre, to analyze the current situation, the effects of the plans on the territory and the historical centre itself and to give ideas to the future administration