Territorial restoration and redevelopment. The case of the Pentimele Hill

The issue of degraded territorial environments redevelopment is quite complex. Attention is often directed to urban areas (abandoned historic centers, neighborhoods characterized by modest architecture and housing problems, old industrial areas, suburbs that have grown up without a logical plan, agglomerations that have suffered disastrous phenomena from natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes). And there are now numerous urban regeneration experiences that follow a cultural current aimed at limiting the expansion of cities and the consumption of precious land. Less attention is paid to the redevelopment and care of valuable territorial and environmental areas which, for different reasons, have undergone an action of impoverishment or desertification. The paper focuses precisely on this issue, with the aim of bringing out the opportunity for targeted and coordinated actions that can give new life to interesting ecosystems. Some bibliographical references are proposed and an integrated planning methodological approach is outlined, based on multidisciplinary contributions, aimed at the restoration and environmental regeneration of a degraded land. Finally, an emblematic case study is proposed for the planning of balanced measures for the environmental regeneration and enhancement of a hill located on the edge of the city of Reggio Calabria, which has long been left in a state of abandonment and is now almost deserted due to several fires over the past decades.