Lamont Young (architect)

Lamont Young (1851-1929) was a British architect and urban planner from the late 19th and early 20th century[1] — widely noted for a number of prominent buildings in Naples, Italy, his birthplace; his 1906 founding of the Automobile Club d'Napoli; and an ambitious but unrealized urban plan, The Venice District, he conceived for Naples.

He is also noted for other buildings in Margherita Park and the Amedeo district; Villa Ebe on Monte Echia, his personal residence; and the headquarters of the Grenoble Institute on Via Crispi, now the French Consulate of Naples.

Called the Naples Rione Venezia or Venice District, the vision ultimately included an extensive metro network running under Posillipo, with 12 stations overall including 2 in the Vomero neighborhood as well as canals, gardens, and low-density residential buildings between Santa Lucia and the Phlegrean area; through to Fuorigrotta and terminating in Bagnoli — the latter of which Young had envisioned as an ideal European tourist and seaside resort destination.

"making healthy again"), a more drastic version of urban surgery than even Young had planned and the one that was, over a 30-year period, responsible for the rebuilding of Naples before World War I.

Heavily destroyed by arson in 1997, the shell of Villa Ebe remains today atop one of Naple's prominent cliffs, Pizzofalcone, overlooking the noted Castel dell'Ovo on Santa Lucia harbor.