Abstract
A scientific multidisciplinary vision (territorialism) meets halfway the forceful re-emergence of a historical subject (new rurality) in a context in which cyclical and epochal crises converge in making necessary - and more urgent than ever - an ecological re-conversion of the entire model of western civilisation: putting man ‘down to earth’, ‘coming back’ to earth, therefore, means here to ‘come back’ to territory, rebuilding through four parallel movements the co-evolutionary dynamics - of which it is, at the same time, the outcome and the precondition - broken by the predatory drift of the economy and culture of ‘global city’.
