Landscape Laboratory for City and Territorial Projects

Agrarian landscape, cultural landscape, enhancement of minor historical centres and the historical/architectural heritage, small islands and sustainable development, city and natural reserves, decommissioned areas as an opportunity for innovation, green infrastructure: these are the concepts emerging from the session The landscape as a laboratory for good living: the fruitful relationship between agriculture, tourism, natural and historical/artistic resources, and knowledge of places. They are different point-like themes that address the question of city and territorial design with a wider view encompassing an overall landscape project as the synthesis of research, knowledge, socio-behavioural practices, and urban-planning projects, organized on both the urban and/or territorial scale. The experiences presented prefigure an open landscape laboratory that is home to multidisciplinary and multi-scale proposals and projects, attributable in many cases to precise urban-planning tools.