AbstractsEconomics

In the city of Taranto located in south Italy, industrial foul-up is one of the biggest contributors of the high percentage of cancer death. The case of Ilva factory in Taranto is an example of how a wrong interaction among stakeholders became the cause for ecological and social problem. The factory is an integral cycle steel plant, where all the stages for the transformation of iron into steel happen. It represents 75% of Taranto province GDP. The Italian government aware of a severe economic crisis was not intended to deploy the complete closure of the factory and it is guiding in a coherent direction to a project for reforming the entire steel cycle production. However the rural cultivated area around the city will be not available anymore and a people through protest are reclaiming a new place where live. Research Theme The research has been developed studying the concept of Community. By saying that the project proposes a unique approach that include three different theme: a system for a land remediation related with the project of a neighborhood for 18.000 people and new jobs Approch The design process is seen as an opportunity where inhabitants use their resources to maintain current needs all the while, ensuring and protecting resources for future generations for example self sufficient production of energy, natural clean process of waters, addressing also in a different economy production. The territory will be cleaned up by phytoremediation and the system of abandoned Masserias (fortified farm house) will be the centers of a new economy, where i.e. collecting the plant for the production of biofuel, and they will be places for leisure and touristic activities.