Analysis & Planning

A Green Ring for the Ancient City of Pompeii Studio Bellesi Giuntoli Florence, Italy oved to death” is a phrase familiar to managers “L of cultural resources, and for those stewarding the ancient ruins of the buried city of Pompeii, its 2.5 million annual visitors represented an experiential and archaeological challenge. A four-kilometer “green ring” tracing the outer walls of the ancient city will address overuse and visitation issues while integrating the landscapes of past and present, urban and rural. Informed by a never-realized proposal from the late 1990s for a pedestrian circuit around the city, the buffer park becomes a new interface between the necropolis and the extra moenia, or the area outside the city walls, creating new ecological and landscape linkages. Drawing on historical plant and hardscape materials, with traces…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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