Experiments
The Foundation’s initiatives, projects, trials to provide innovative cultural services in the face of major social, political and territorial changes
Landscape Planning: invariants and criticalities
in Maria Mautone and Maria Ronza (eds.), Cultural heritage and landscape: a supply chain approach for territorial planning, Rome, Gangemi publisher 2009 Abstract Landscape analysis and planning are becoming increasingly important in spatial governance processes, in relation to the aggravation of many environmental problems and their complex interference with social [...]
Landscape as value creation: three key questions
I. Landscape as a confrontation ground In the last decade, especially since the European Landscape Convention (EC, 2000), spatial planning experiences, government practices and international debate have given landscape a growing political and cultural relevance. The landscape has increasingly become, from a simple object of study, a frontier terrain, a [...]
For the landscape: from rules to industrious recognition
For Landscape: from rules to the engaged recognitionThe Piemonte Landscape Plan is the most mature effort of developing an operative paradigm to enhance landscape, making the best use of urban plans. The attempt, despite the good intention of the law, shows the deep constraints of governmental regulation even though those [...]
The contemporary dimension of the historical territory
The historical consideration of the territory opens up a structural interpretation of the most enduring and resilient relationships and aspects that constitute the reference values of the inhabiting communities and their actions for more sustainable local development . 1. THE ACTUALITY OF THE HISTORICAL TERRITORY Various reasons contribute today to [...]
The ecological network of the Turin metropolitan area: the role of agriculture in the system of parks and peri-urban green spaces
Speech at the ‘International Conference. The rural system. A challenge for planning between preservation, sustainability and governance of transformations’. Milan 13/14 October 2004 […]