Le discipline che attraversano il territorio

Abstract

A comeback to earth requires a paradigm shift in development strategies: a reversal of the urban point of view which means acknowledging, in the values of peculiarity and integrity of our territorial environments, the role and impact of physical, social and cultural factors that allowed the formation and enhancement of landscape in each place. The growth of urbanisation processes and the competitiveness among the great world cities tend to deepen the problems of pollution and health costs and require processes of urban regeneration based on a knowledge of the territorial macro-systems of every major urbanised region. The very tools of parks and preservation of agricultural areas are likely to remain good consumption islands if the multiplicity of factors that must converge in the development choices is not considered by the entire system of public policies. While each planning instrument remains confined within the ambit of mediations between the pressures of real estate markets and the underestimation of too many issues, including the ineffectiveness of urban equalisation, due to the economic crisis and the widespread financialization of real estate industry. We must return priority to the history of territories and places to rebuild the fabric of urban communities and to protect the biosphere reserves still surviving in the waters and the fertile lands of our countryside.