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Table 3: Actions to support sustainable campus planning, design and development
Category

Plan Actions

Campus planning

introduction of a GREEN FLET (transport system) using hybrid busses that recharge with solar
energy and a car pooling system, a plan for cycle paths and car parks to discourage the use of
cars
implementation of water retrieval system with large storage basins and compatible strategies
for food supply and waste recycling
study of the views of the new buildings to offer glimpses on the new campus garden and the
natural values of sea and mountains
redistribution of parking areas under the Eco- garden platform.

Campus building design

construction of modern didactic building for and a great sports center with passive behavior in
terms of orientation and materials according to the LEED protocol
creation within the Eco- garden of a nursery for herbal species for the conservation of
biodiversity
creation of a raised platform connecting the elevated part of the campus to the lower one and
sustaining an eco-garden of 14,000 m2

To sum up, among the various enhancements of the international university poles, both for the
ones falling within the specific denomination of Green Campus and those of wider extent, there is
a common tendency to redevelopment with concern to environmental protection. This sees the
disincentive use of cars, and the pedestrianisation of the internal routes to the campus and, also,
the redevelopment of green spaces, as important objectives for development.
To this matter, careful attention to the energetic project of the university settlement is paid with a
particular reference to the constructions and to an interrelation between the innovative energetic systems that, if well managed, could bring about experimentations and prototypes for wider
impact and implementation on urban scale.
Moreover, in the interventions examined it can be noted how, although present the same requests for academic spaces, services, residences, routes, etc., the single projects stem from the
specific relationship between the town and university pole and from the integration that it is
being pursued between them.
The aim of such interventions, therefore, has to be connected to the wider argument about the
impulse to the development of new protocols and the beginning of new processes/projects for
urban and energetic regeneration.

The case of Taranto
The study therefore focuses on Taranto and its University Center. Taranto is one of the most industrialised towns of southern Italy. A town whose economy has for years revolved around the great
steel industrial plant of ILVA (second in Europe until the 90s) and the petrochemical industry. With
the outbreak, in 2012, of the “case Taranto”, following inquiries on the company’s top management
for the “environmental disaster”, the problem of decontamination of the areas of high risk of environmental crisis is dramatically opened at a national level.
From this it comes to the “urgent provisions for the restoration and requalification of Taranto’s
territory” [3] and the plan of action on the “SIN areas” (Sites of National Interest) included in it [4],
for around € 65 million [5].
In the coming years Taranto will be therefore very affected by complex reclamation operations
that will be accompanied by a process of industrial reconversion, hopefully inspired by the principles of Green Economy. All this will transform Taranto’s area in an enormous laboratory which, in

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