Il design urbano per i centri minori. Il caso studio di Cassano Irpino

Cassano Irpino is a small town in the province of Avellino located on a wooded hill overlooking the Alta Valle del Calore, which is the background of the last outgrowths of the Picentini mountains with the peaks of Terminio and Cervialto. The contribution investigates, also through the narration of a design experience carried out on the theme of regeneration and enhancement of the old town of Cassano Irpino, the possible interpretative and operational use of the notion of “small town” nowadays often conceived as a residual fragment of the processes of urban growth, rereading it instead as a living and structuring nucleus of an idea of smart land. The final hypothesis is to announce a method proposal to rethink the contemporary city starting precisely from the “lesson of the small towns” enhancing, in the evolutionary dynamics underway in our time, the propulsive elements of an urban growth based on the improvement of the quality of environment of human life and the common good.