A Participatory Mapping for Planning a Circular City

The Circular City paradigm contains the principles of the Circular Economy that fully fit the goals of the 2030 Agenda. However, for these to be implementable, a great deal of effort is still required in terms of planning, economic and geographical analysis. The paper, given the need to analyse the state of affairs of the territory under examination, intends to create a mapping of the good practices in the field of sustainability and circularity. The case study under examination is Genoa. Firstly, starting with a survey of the municipality and several investee public and private companies, it will be possible to highlight actions in the field of circularity in order to plan and design new ones. Subsequently, we also focus on spontaneous initiatives carried out by the various actors in the area. In this way, the aim is to bring together the two “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches, to ascertain whether and where points of convergence exist at these two levels, to detect good practices and identify the actors involved. This participatory mapping will be carried out in a georeferenced manner by means of GIS from existing municipal cartographic supports for planning a circular city.