The landscape design between sustainability, heritage and new economies

In the north and in the south, in small and large realities, entire portions of land quickly recompose themselves rewriting new landscapes that are no longer rural and not yet urban: rur-ban. These are new territorial typologies, in which residual gardens, at times fenced and guarded, edge towards built-up areas, and remnants of the agrarian landscape between the new infrastructure systems design a new landscape characterised by the accumulation of waiting areas. The management of this spatial organization is particularly complex. One issue that arises concerns the pre-existing structures and the attitude to adopt with regard to their conservation, substitution, reuse, abandonment. The agricultural landscape of this sprawls area has many inconsistencies and it is difficult to interpret. Layers of activity and different temporality overlap and flank themselves by creating a Hybrid landscapes in which live together more or less visible traces of an agricultural past still recent and elements of new forms of expansion. These are spaces/depot in the complex system of values, knowledge and social relations that have characterized the agrarian world and its history [1] and for this reason they are a vehicle to promote and strengthen local identity. Imaginary landscapes that as designers our task is to interpret and reconstruct to trigger a process of appropriation of land by those who live in and to give dignity and identity back to areas that have lost it.