Commune of Civitavecchia
Mayor dr. Alessio De Sio, Councillor to Great Works, Development, Production Activities Dr. Giampaolo Scacchi
Director Great Works arch. Cristina Angeleri
Director Development and Production Activities Area Donatella Sena

European cities and the two big challenges they have to face:

• globalisation of competition

• demand of quality city

The city answer:

• the sea, historical and economic field

• the natural environment, connection between different realities

Civitavecchia was born as a city after the creation of those infrastructures related to the sea: starting from that, historiography refers to two different entities, the harbour and the city, as a single reality.

Thanks to the development of the sea-transport sector, harbour activities needed larger and larger areas causing a continuous physical and functional splitting of the city.

The two different roles of the city are:

• Central City in the northern Lazio,

• Important harbour in the region, but even in Italy and in Europe.

Economic Context

Even in this area, as everywhere in Italy, the 50’s are characterized by the exodus from countries towards industries first (where workers doubled from 1951 and 1961, then remained constant till 1981 when they began to decrease) and tertiary then, a sector that became more and more important starting from 1961.

The agricultural sector registered an important decrease in number of workers and the same was for fishing.

The distance between Civitavecchia and Rome (about 80 km) must be considered as a double-edged weapon: Civitavecchia can result marginal compared to Rome and, in the meantime, is penalized by the development of the city area.

The activity related to the harbour has great potentialities but it is not sufficiently exploited.

Together with the structural lack of balance between the services that are offered and those necessary, there is a reduction of effective incomes for further developments.

Geographical Context

Civitavecchia is placed in the north-west of Rome, where the province of Viterbo begins: it has a surface of 71,91 km² and 50902 inhabitants; it occupies 1,34% of the province surface and 0,42 % of the region surface, with a percentage respectively of 1,32 % and 0,96%.

Together with S.Marinella, Allumiere, Tolfa, Bracciano, Canale Monterano, Manziana, Cerveteri, Ladispoli, Anguillara Sabazia, Trevignano Romano and the administrative island of Polline-Martignano, Civitavecchia constitutes what is called "Tolfa area" which, with a surface of about 800 km² (a little more than half the whole Rome territory), is totally influenced by Rome.

This influence is evident in territory exploitation, in population distribution and movements, like in demographic, economic and social sectors.

Thanks to its functional characteristics and its relation to this area and that of the near Maremma of Viterbo, Civitavecchia is a non-official administrative centre, that is a reference "pole", even if extremely less important than the influence of Rome on the whole area and region.

Social Context

Civitavecchia population density is of 708 inhabitants for km², against 719 of the province and 308 of the region.

With its 50902 inhabitants , Civitavecchia represents, till 2001, January 1^st , one of the six communes of Lazio (except for Rome) with more than 50000 inhabitants, together with Viterbo, Guidonia, Tivoli, Fiumicino and Aprilia.

Women are the majority (51,7% of population) and the ratio women-population (W.pop. / M.pop. *100) is of 107,2%, a value that is only for a little inferior to the regional one (107,8%).

If we look at the population age structure using the age pyramid, till 2001, January 1^st, we can see that it has the form of a spindle, typical of old populations.

Projects Objectives

All about the Strategical Project Master Plan

During the last year, people became more and more aware of the fact that a great possibility of develop, even economically, whole territories lies in territorial policies. The territory revival becomes one of the main contents of a plan of economic and civil revival of a community.

In these years, the local Government followed an integrated development, so to regain territory, memory and identity of our city: on these basis, the municipal administration created the urban context, the opportunities to re-launch those important production sectors, such as the economic one, the entrepreneurial one, the financial one, the institutional one and volunteering. In this context, the presence of some realities which influence the development of the territory has a great importance:

• the trade harbour, whose activity is constantly increasing;

• the University of Rome, with its important scientific sector;

• the tourist harbour with its extremely favourable position;

• the closeness of high-quality monumental complexes, both tourist and landscaping.

Anyway, it is necessary to remember an effective discontinuity in the development process of the local system: the Strategic Project Master Plan is aimed to give a new impulse to those policies of revival and development already present in the city, so to make it more competitive in a European and Mediterranean context, improving the quality of urban life both for its inhabitants, tourists and those people related to production activities.

So, the STRATEGIC PROJECT MASTER PLAN is thought as the Unique Reference Document for every development policy and strategic line of Civitavecchia; therefore, there will be a unique planning scheme to coordinate and integrate the ordinary current planning and complex and negotiated one: it can also integrate them with great operators and small-medium companies development lines, so to add value to the territory most qualifying elements.

The development lines so obtained will not hurt the possibilities to obtain public and private funds.

Strategies and results

Strategic Project Master Plan procedures

The Strategic Project Master Plan is thought to intervene on different strategic axes at the same time: in particular, Civitavecchia S.P.M.P will act, principally, on the following axes of Doc.U.P. Lazio:

Axis II

• Road network and intermodal systems development;

• Water system reorganization and adaptation;

• Territorial Marketing operations;

• Immaterial networks, technological innovation, revival and development of markets and exhibition structures.

Axis III

• Local systems revival – Infrastructures and territory

• Important environmental and cultural areas revival

• Parks qualification and revival

The Strategic Project Master Plan finds in the system called City of Civitavecchia the potentialities of immobile resources, environment, natural wealth, cultural heritage and localized work. Moreover, it is aimed to increase the possibility to attract mobile resources through localized investments, thus making life and services better.

The Strategic Project Master Plan develops strategies to reach macro-objectives: this is possible thanks to the town ability to start complex and qualitative mechanisms, shifting the logic of integration and identity mechanism so to create and stabilize those conditions necessary to attract privates and to reach a new balance between private and public work. It should have a positive feedback, the only one able to guarantee the optimisation of the system itself.

The Civitavecchia Strategic Project Master Plan macro-objective is the development of the city system as attraction and this is possible through a complex strategy that respects the important structural area characteristics.

The three important targets of the S.P.M.P. are:

• Environmental sustainability for development

• History, city resource

• Territory quality

In this view, the Strategic Project Master Plan will define the strategic development lines and those targets that are more easily reachable through a procedure of analysis, integration and evaluation of data and intermediate results.