Resilience Markers for Fragile Areas. Innovative Approaches and Strategies for the Villages of Reggio Calabria, Metropolitan City

Abstract

According to researchers of global innovation and social changes, disturbance has attacked communities. It mostly assembled in the cities, but involves even the margins, urban chain weaknesses, and smaller urban aggregates, rich in landscape and architectural heritage, but also subject to depopulation and unsustainable conditions of seismic and hydrogeological risk. The disciplinary debate in progress proposes as principal strategic address the intervention on the improvement of the resiliency for these weak areas. This paper presents the results of a study which intends to provide tools for the assessment of, and the increase in, improved resilience in the economic, social, urban, architectural fields by using approaches which break with the traditional definition related to a positive reaction to a sudden, negative event. Different research programmes addressing this issue are active in Italy, it propose a grid of indicators with related benchmarks and scale of application. Along with others found in literature, these references have been compared in the submitted study to define a new marker action; evaluation matrix to be employed in the daily management of the territory, in general, and of the village surrounding the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria, in particular.