{"id":5370,"date":"2020-09-11T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/2020\/09\/11\/cities-in-crisis-shifting-perspective-on-the-metropolitan-landscapes-in-marseille-and-naples\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:55:42","slug":"cities-in-crisis-shifting-perspective-on-the-metropolitan-landscapes-in-marseille-and-naples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/2020\/09\/11\/cities-in-crisis-shifting-perspective-on-the-metropolitan-landscapes-in-marseille-and-naples\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities in Crisis: Shifting Perspective on the Metropolitan Landscapes in Marseille and Naples"},"content":{"rendered":"The elective course \u00abTerritory of the city\u00bb focused on Marseille and Naples, two cities enduring long-term economic and social crises. Like other Mediterranean port cities, they are directly affected by global warming and face increasing threats of natural hazards.\u00a0The recent creation of the \u00abM\u00e9tropole Aix-Marseille-Provence\u00bb (2016) and the \u00abCitt\u00e0 Metropolitana di Napoli\u00bb (2014) represent an opportunity to address some of these issues at a larger scale.<\/em>\n\n\n

Marseille: Alpine and Maritime Territory<\/h3>\nMarseille, the second largest city in France, looks back on a history marked by rise and fall, growth and crisis. Its strategic location on the Mediterranean Sea allowed the port city to flourish in the 19th<\/sup> century and to become a melting pot of cultures. With the end of colonialism and the withdrawal of the port industry, Marseille became a ‘ville en crise’<\/em> in the 20th<\/sup> century, impacted by poverty, crime and decay. The city’s socio-spatial segregation \u2013 wealthier neighbourhoods to the south and social housing blocks to the north \u2013 dates from this period and continues to this day.\n\nIn the spring semester 2019, our study perimeter was the Massif de l’\u00c9toile, a striking, barren limestone mountain range forming the natural topographical boundary north of the city body. Consisting mainly of bush and heathland, it is currently hardly used except for a few telecommunications facilities, hydroelectric power plants and hiking trails. As a central landscape area of the new metropolitan region \u00abAix-Marseille-Provence\u00bb, however, it has the potential to structure future urbanization and to take on various urban functions: a new type of metropolitan park, for which new approaches and strategies must be developed.\n\n\n
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Field trip spring 2019: Marseille. Exploring some Quartiers Nord and the Massif de l'Etoile with members of the Bureau des Guides, local stakeholders and inhabitants. \u00a9 Amalia Bonsack, chair G\u00fcnther Vogt, ETH Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Analyzing the interface between risks of bushfires and flooding, Geraldine Storb developed a strategy of flooding control based on the dynamics of the landscape and the creation of punctual public free spaces \u2013 thus also contributing to social integration and life quality. \u00a9 Geraldine Storb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lukas Brusch's project dealt with the issues of waste management in Marseille, exploring the combination of landfill sites with solar energy production. \u00a9 Lukas Brusch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In her proposal, Wei You chose to improve the accessibility of the Massif de l'\u00c9toile at the metropolitan, urban and neighbourhood levels, with the integration of social and cultural activities and rehabilitation of former industrial and mineral extraction sites. \u00a9 Wei You<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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City of Naples (thick red line), Citta Metropolitana di Napoli (thin red line) and investigation perimeter (black dotted line) \u00a9 Amalia Bonsack, chair G\u00fcnther Vogt, ETH Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Naples: Land of Fire<\/h3>\nLocated in-between two volcanic areas, the urbanization of Naples’ territory has been continuously shaped by this very specific topography. To the east is the famous Vesuvius, whose iconic shape embodies the city’s identification symbol. To the west, several eruptions thousands of years ago resulted in the formation of a large caldera known as Campi Flegrei – the \u00abburning fields\u00bb. Today, the area is characterized by a complex topography and scattered uses: agricultural land, illegally built settlements, isolated archaeological remains, industrial wastelands, abandoned mining areas and protected landscapes overlap and contrast in a discontinuous palimpsest. In a city affected by the risk of eruption, crime and corruption, recession and permanent deindustrialization processes, the newly created \u00abCitta Metropolitana di Napoli\u00bb produces a shift of perspective and particularly offers the opportunity to reassess and rethink this metropolitan landscape.\n\n\n
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Field trip autumn 2019: Naples. Visit of a former turfstone quarry in West Naples. \u00a9 Amalia Bonsack, chair G\u00fcnther Vogt, ETH Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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By correlated rising sea levels and refugee flows on global and local levels, Zo\u00e9 R\u00fcttimann aimed to propose resilience strategies simultaneously addressing both issues. \u00a9 Zo\u00e9 R\u00fcttimann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As a conclusion to a thorough research work, Mirjam Tr\u00f6ndle developed the concept of \u00abKulturzentrum\u00bb as a model of a cooperative for Naples' surrounding agricultural communities. \u00a9 Mirjam Tr\u00f6ndle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On a smaller scale, Fei Li exploited the potentials offered by a complex topography. It could become a structuring element for future urbanization in west Naples, addressing issues of accessibility and spatial segregation. \u00a9 Fei Li<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\nAmalia Bonsack<\/a> studied architecture at EPF Lausanne, UP Valencia and ETH Z\u00fcrich. As a scientific assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. h.c. G\u00fcnther Vogt, she teaches the elective course \u00abTerritory of the City<\/a>\u00bb, dealing with the development of multi-scale design strategies in European metropolitan landscapes.<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The elective course \u00abTerritory of the city\u00bb focused on Marseille and Naples, two cities enduring long-term economic and social crises. Like other Mediterranean port cities, they are directly affected by global warming and face increasing threats of natural hazards.\u00a0The recent creation of the \u00abM\u00e9tropole Aix-Marseille-Provence\u00bb (2016) and the \u00abCitt\u00e0 Metropolitana di Napoli\u00bb (2014) represent an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"departemente":[138,227,159,207],"newsletter_ausgabe":[305],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-artikel","departemente-departement-architektur-d-arch","departemente-ehemalige-lehrstuehle","departemente-institut-fuer-landschaft-und-urbane-studien-lus","departemente-prof-dr-h-c-guenther-vogt","newsletter_ausgabe-nl-47"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":23,"label":"Newsletter-Artikel"}],"departemente":[{"value":138,"label":"Departement Architektur (D-ARCH)"},{"value":227,"label":"Ehemalige Lehrst\u00fchle"},{"value":159,"label":"Institut f\u00fcr Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS)"},{"value":207,"label":"Prof. em Dr. h. c. G\u00fcnther Vogt"}],"newsletter_ausgabe":[{"value":305,"label":"NL 47"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Map-Marseille-NSL_skaliert-1024x724.jpg",1024,724,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Yaxin Hou","author_link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/author\/houya\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":23,"name":"Newsletter-Artikel","slug":"newsletter-artikel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":680,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":23,"category_count":680,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Newsletter-Artikel","category_nicename":"newsletter-artikel","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter_ausgabe?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}