Nuove scale della governance urbano-regionale in Campania

In Campania, the aggregation of some municipalities plays an important role with respect to the elaboration of development strategies. The case study concerns the Local Development Agency "Costa del Vesuvio". This is a set of municipalities on the eastern side of the Gulf of Naples, with over 500,000 inhabitants. The Agency has an intense planning agenda in the area and should be considered a intermediate partner between the regional and municipal scale. In general, it should be noted that the intermediate formation of these Agencies represents a very interesting phenomenon since it favours the creation of an urban polycentrism that could balance the primacy of Naples.