Landscape Planning at the Local Level

✍ Scribed by Luigi La Riccia (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 186
Series: The Urban Book Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning? What actions / rules are now achievable for the protection, planning and management of local-scale landscapes? The overall reflections gathered in the book contribute to suggest innovative visions about landscape planning at local scale, seen as first steps towards a more functional change of perspective.

New landscapes are the result of local planning practices that no longer seem able to “understand” the current society through urban design. Public space and new urban centralities interact with the increasingly complex functions of social life and mark the distance from territorial values, relying less and less on physical relationships (economic and functional) and increasingly on symbolic and intangible relationships, as ‘cultural identity’. Landscape is essential for the sustainable future of the urban and rural territory: the landscape quality is a factor of economic competitiveness and acts also as a factor of social cohesion and integration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
The Evolution of Landscape in the Italian Urban Planning Culture....Pages 7-37
Approaches to Landscape: Background and Emerging Trends in the Scientific Debate....Pages 39-60
Landscape in the Planning Systems in Europe....Pages 61-70
Landscape in the Urban Planning Practices. Case Studies in Italy....Pages 71-138
Theoretical and Operative Recommendations for Urban Planning....Pages 139-165
Conclusions. Perspectives for New Landscapes....Pages 167-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-176

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning;Nature Conservation;Sustainable Development;Cultural Heritage

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