Urban regeneration, new neighbourhood narratives, grassroots energy
There is a Naples that doesn’t appear on postcards, but can be heard in the construction sites, workshops, and courtyards.
It’s the Naples that is changing, regenerating, rewriting its urban geography starting from the margins, the urban voids, the forgotten neighbourhoods.
A city that is no longer merely described from the outside, but tells its own story — through those who live it and reinvent it.
In Naples, urban regeneration is not just architectural: it is deeply social and cultural. It doesn’t stop at “redeveloping” spaces but restores meaning and dignity to places by placing people at the centre. It’s a collective, complex, and layered process — just like the city itself.
Naples rewriting itself
Former barracks turned into cultural hubs, abandoned industrial zones dreaming of green spaces, historic districts once stigmatised now becoming attractors. All of this is happening today, in a Naples that looks forward without denying its past — that knows regeneration doesn’t mean erasing, but listening and transforming.
Where change has already taken root
- Former Military Hospital
A monumental complex in the heart of the city opening up to new public uses, hybrid spaces, and contemporary visions. From a closed site to an open-city laboratory. - Rione Sanità
From central periphery to a social and cultural lab. A neighbourhood that has changed its destiny thanks to grassroots networks, including cooperatives, theatres, conscious tourism, and street art. - Bagnoli
The great bet for the future: a former industrial area with one of Europe’s most ambitious urban regeneration plans. Where steel and concrete give way to projects focused on green space, culture, and sustainability.
A new urban narrative
This section is dedicated to the New Naples: its metamorphoses, its quiet protagonists, the neighbourhoods turning from margins into hubs of creative energy.
We will tell stories of regeneration, social startups, urban art, ethical entrepreneurship, and active citizenship. Because Naples is also this: a city that changes — without losing itself.
