Urban Renewal of a Marina: A Case Study concerning a Coastal Area of Southern Sardinia (Italy)

The “creative city” could be, by definition, a city which produces new urban meanings. It also could be considered a manufacturer of a new culture, competing internationally through the promotion and the exploitation of its own cultural identity. The concept of city today recalls the idea of urban region. These systems could eventually interact. City could reinterpret regional shapes and functions, and times of nature. Based on these shapes, functions and times, the city should project creative futures. The futures should be natural, ecologically sustainable and culturally proactive. Evidence from the observation of urban transformations in the last decades concerning several European cities indicates that urban renewal has produced a rebirth of cultural innovation, creativity and production of quality and cultural identity. The urban renewal is a paradigm of contemporaneity, an important subject of scientific studies. It produces best practices and offers creative approaches for building-up urban quality, through the sustainable use of natural, economic and human resources. The main points of the project proposal of this paper generate from the interpretation and characterization of the identity of the Marina site, taking into account the philosophy, the guidelines, and the rules of the regional landscape plan of Sardinia.