DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION IN LARGE CITIES: 
AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Carmine Gambardella, David Listokin (edited by)
V 2016 - VI 2017 editions, ISBN 978-88-6542-636-4, pp. 561
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The V and VI editions of the six-month seminar courses of 2016 and 2017 (January - June) entitled ‘Development and Preservation in Large Cities : an international perspective’ had an extraordinary success as well as the previous editions of 2012  (I), 2013 (II), 2014 (III) and 2015 (IV). 70 participants were involved among professors, researchers, PhD students and students from the partner institutions, who received a joint certificate of participation. The course is organized by the Center of Competence on Cultural Heritage, Ecology and Economics (BENECON), institutional partner of the UNESCO University and Heritage Forum and UNESCO Chair on Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Governance, by the European Polytechnical University and the Edward J. Blustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey with the patronage of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ and the participation of PhD students of the Doctoral School in Architecture, Industrial Design and Cultural Heritage.

Carmine Gambardella

We are so pleased for the fifth straight year that professors and students at both the University of Campania in Italy and Rutgers University in the United States (U.S.) have productively collaborated in a joint annual class (See Table 1 for details). The class considers the subject of development and preservation from a cross-national perspective in Italy and the U.S. To foster cross-national dialogue and understanding, students in this class worked as joint teams (encompassing both SUN and Rutgers students) to study historic preservation topics of mutual interest. This year, the cross-national topics considered three subjects: restoration and adaptive reuse, heritage tourism, and financial and regulatory mechanisms for preservation. From the joint student work, we gleaned the following. There is much interest in historic preservation in both Italy and the U. S., with preservation more ingrained in the former country and preservation more of a recent value in the latter country.

David Listokin

Alessandro Ciambrone
Prefaces by CARMINE GAMBARDELLA and BERNARD HAUMONT
2017, ISBN 978-88-6542-522-0, pp. 535
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The research analyses six case studies in both Campania and France. The cases of the Region focus on its World Heritage properties, which are Caserta, Naples, Pompeii, Amalfi, Cilento and Benevento (within the network Italia Langobardorum). The case studies in France analyze issues and examples of success among the emblematic sites of the French heritage included in the World Heritage list as well as the Grand Sites de France network. These are: Montpellier, the Loire Valley, Saint Guilhem le Désert et Gorges de l'Hérault, Pont du Gard, the site and Archeological European Centreof Bibracte, and the Seine in Paris. The study is part of an international perspective due to the author believing that the analysis of best practices in different territorial contexts could suggest proposals and strategies to be adopted in Campania. Thus, Alessandro tries to understand whether positive outcomes in the field of heritage management, in specific regions of France, cannot only be adapted to the cultural, social and economic contexts of Campania but also supported by the main territorial stakeholders. He meaningfully highlighted the phases of the project that put in relation, in a logic of system, the patrimony of Humanity with the ordinary, minor and intangible heritage of the territory of reference.

The fourth edition of the six month series of seminars (January – June 2015)
entitled Preservation and Development in Large Cities: An International Perspective was an extraordinary success, as the previous editions of 2012 (first), 2013 (second) and 2014 (third). It involved 70 participants including professors, researchers, post-doctorate fellows, graduate students and students of partner institutions, who have all received a joint participation certificate. The series was organized by the Centre of Competence of the Campania Region on Cultural Heritage, Ecology and Economics (BENECON, institutional partner of Forum UNESCO University and Heritage), the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design Luigi Vanvitelli of the Second University of Naples, and Edward J . Blustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The professors and researchers from BENECON and the Department drew up several papers in relation to their specific subject areas, in a logic of integrating their skills and confronting “without limits” which characterizes the methodological approach of our scientific community, with Italian and American case studies on design, architecture and landscape.

CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Edited by Stefano Bertocci, Paola Puma
2015, ISBN 978-88-6542-431-5 - ISSN 2464-9678, pp. 790
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The management of the contemporary aspects and problems of historical heritage, the preservation of cultural memory, are necessary activities that concern and cut across a variety of different disciplines, whose complexities are evident as long as they require a specific definition of the identity of the architecture.

7th International Conference
Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction
Florence, 2015
The Department of Architecture DIDA is a structure of the University of Florence dedicated to scientific research, educational and formative activities, transfer of knowledge, innovations of the activities addressed to architecture, industrial design, territorial and landscape planning. The Department of Architecture promotes the internationalization of the research activities, of the valorisation and transfer activities, of the scientific and technological advice, even in cooperation with other academic and research structures, both public and private, as it is underlined in the book that we are presenting.

Saverio Mecca

LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE COMPLESSA DEL PAESAGGIO:
CASI STUDIO IN CAMPANIA

Jolanda Capriglione, Alessandro Ciambrone
2014, ISBN 978-88-6542-390-5, pp. 216
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Prefazione di Carmine Gambardella: “La pubblicazione sintetizza un lavoro di partenariato internazionale di cinque anni (2010-1014) fra il Centro di Eccellenza della Regione Campania sui Beni Culturali, Economia ed Ecologia (Benecon), partner istituzionale del Forum Unesco University and Heritage, il Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale “Luigi Vanvitelli” SUN e il Club Caserta per l’Unesco. Il Benecon ha siglato il 28 maggio 2009 un Memorandum of Understanding con il World Heritage Centre. In base a tale accordo, ha avviato un insieme di azioni per la tutela e la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e paesaggistico in Campania, in continuità con l’operato di decenni di ricerche scientifiche e progetti operativi dell’Università”.

The third edition of the seminar series (January – June 2014) entitled Development and Preservation in Large Cities: An International Perspective was an extraordinary success, like the first (2012) and second (2013) editions, involving 70 participants which included lecturers, PhD and undergraduate students of the partner institutions, who have been awarded a joint participation certificate. The course was organized by the Centre of Competence of the Campania region on Cultural Heritage, Ecology and Economics (BENECON, institutional partner of the Forum UNESCO University and Heritage), the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design Luigi Vanvitelli of the Second University of Naples and the Edward J. Blustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION IN LARGE CITIES:
AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

edited by
Carmine GAMBARDELLA
David LISTOKIN
2013, ISBN 978-88-6542-320-2, p. 212
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The second edition of the seminar series in 2013 called the Development and Preservation in Large Cities: An International Perspective organised by the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design Luigi Vanvitelli of the Second University of Naples, the Regional Centre of Expertise on Culture, Ecology and Economy (BENECON) – an institutional member of Forum UNESCO University and Heritage – and the Edward J. Blustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as for the first edition in 2012, has been an extraordinary success, with 56 participants including professors and lecturers, research fellows as well as doctorate and graduate students and students from partner institutions, which have all received a joint participation certificate.

Carmine Gambardella

This class considered the subject of development and preservation in large cities and examined this interaction from an international perspective, considering case studies in the United States (with an emphasis on New York City) and Italy (discussion of Naples, Pompeii and larger Campania region). New York City has some of the leading cases in the United States of development triumphing over preservation (e.g., demolition of Penn Central Station) as well as opposite situations (e.g., preservation of Grand Central Station). The same is true in Italy, including Naples and the larger Campania region. 

David Listokin

DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION IN LARGE CITIES:
AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Edition 2012

Edited by
Carmine GAMBARDELLA
David LISTOKIN
2013, ISBN 978-88-6542-319-6, p. 154
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The lecture series entitled Development and Preservation in Large Cities: An International Perspective organized by the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design Luigi Vanvitelli at the Second University of Naples, the Regional Centre of Expertise on Culture, Ecology and Economy (BENECON) – an institutional member of the UNESCO Forum University and Heritage – and the Edward J. Blustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey has been an extraordinary success involving 50 participants which has included academic staff, PhD as well as undergraduate students of both the Italian and U.S. partner institutions, who have received a joint qualification.

Carmine Gambardella

This class considered the subject of development and preservation in large cities and examined this interaction from an international perspective, considering case studies in the United States (with an emphasis on New York City) and Italy (discussion of Naples, Pompeii and larger Campania region). New York City has some of the leading cases in the United States of development triumphing over preservation (e.g., demolition of Penn Central Station) as well as opposite situations (e.g., preservation of Grand Central Station). The same is true in Italy, including Naples and the larger Campania region.

David Listokin