Urban regeneration should have a role of integration between planning and design activities; moreover, it very often looks like a single project with detailed proposals and performances, without a general vision of the area. It is therefore necessary to build a reference for the design choices, which primarily concern the city but increasingly involve the surrounding territory. This paper explores the relationship between the plurality of factors that exist on the settlements and productive activities assets which are the elements of the coastal landscape. Our work aims to deal with every aspect of the Re-generation potential, which is an opportunity for enrichment of urban planning, especially in the cases of the Regions -as Molise is -in which really cities do not exist but there is a "continuum" between adjoining Municipalities in a mainly rural territory. Moreover, coastal areas have been in recent years the privileged place for interventions guided by the principles of urban regeneration, in the first phase focused on the physical rehabilitation of degraded areas, afterwards including attention to cultural, social, economic and environmental aspects. In the evolution of this phenomenon, not only we need to highlight the shift from physical rehabilitation to urban regeneration, as an integrated process of actions with a focus on the social aspect, but also we must underline that the so-called "complex programs" -utilized for regeneration projects -are more dynamic than the traditional plans. Keywords: sustainability, urban regeneration, waterfronts & harbors.
INTRODUCTIONOur aim is the creation of a spatial analysis model, able to relate coastal transformations with planning tools, territorial and urban, and with sustainability indicators. Through the selection of planning and design examples of regeneration projects in coastal areas in the National and International scene, and the creation of a best practices abacus and keywords, a methodology for the creation of sustainability indicators of urban regeneration was developed.The understanding of the coastal landscape, its layers of history, its architectural heritage and its building settlement features, near or within urban areas, allows us to identify and analyze the characteristics of the landscape and simultaneously evaluate the applicability of the analysis methodology.The relationship between land/coast and water/sea is stronger along the coastline, in which the relationship between urban and natural element is closer, where City and Sea live together to create the coastal landscape. Water adds value to villages, and this is demonstrated by the constant interest of urbanism that, in recent decades, has examined in depth issues regarding the "water renaissance", i.e. all potential processes of regeneration of the waterfront areas [1][2][3][4][5][6].The waterfront, however, unlike the coastline, cannot be considered a simple demarcation between water and land, but it is, however, a portion of land in close relationship with the sea, and people, o...