摘要：Stimulated by the case of the “waste emergency” occurred at the beginning of the year 2008 in Naples (Italy), the article aims at giving to policy-makers a new vision on the topic of waste management in urban areas. The case of Naples has aroused in fact several reflections: first of all about the double nature of the waste both as problem and as resource; then on the possible existing relation among the waste management system, the public policies, the quality of life and the urban form in the European cities. In order to better investigate these dimensions, the article steps out from Naples and focuses on a more stable case study, Vienna, a city that is worldwide considered as a model of efficiency in the waste management domain. Through an analysis based on different methods it is shown how the current urban waste management system in Vienna is the result of a historical process: born as a sectorial political choice taken in a moment of crisis and isolation, it has afterwards developed as an integrated urban policy. After having outlined the past process and the current situation, the article opens up questions about the future and especially about the effectiveness on the regional level (Vienna-Bratislava city region) of such a successful model on the urban scale.
关键词：waste management; urban planning; public policies; sustainability; form of the city
