Immigration-Driven Urban Regeneration: Intercultural Planning Strategies in Campania

This paper examines the legal and policy frameworks governing migrants’ social rights in the European Union and Italy, with particular attention to EU directives and the regional programs of Campania. Building on a comparative review of fifty national and international case studies of immigrant inclusion and integration initiatives, it distils a set of best practices readily adaptable to other contexts. These insights are then juxtaposed against European, Italian, and Campanian regional strategies, and correlated with demographic trends and their impacts on the local housing market. Drawing on this analysis, the study offers design guidelines for urban plans that foster intercultural coexistence and community resilience (Council of Europe, 2003). Finally, it presents a concrete urban-design proposal for Castel Volturno—one of four municipalities along the Domitian coast that since the 1990s has attracted a growing migrant population—addressing its challenges of social fragmentation, urban decay, and environmental degradation.