This collection of essays reflects on the theme of
“transition” in all of its nuances (from ecological to
sustainable, describing the potential of fragile territories). This is a current issue on the political agenda
and in the international scientific community, which
interprets transition as a condition that calls for redesigning / rethinking spaces and flows (human and
non-human) for a new relational ecology between
bodies and inhabited contexts.
Researchers, local administrators, architects, landscape architects, photographers are asked to think
about landscapes in transition and their repercussions on urban planning and on the local and global
territory.
The contributions develop innovative reflections,
especially in reference to the spaces of the urban
fringe, abandoned and polluted areas, landscapes
at natural and environmental risk. The transition in
these spaces consists in the possibility of enhancing their ecological and environmental potential,
favoring a transformation that affects society, settlements, and economies, with improvement in the
living environments and the recycling of entire portions of the landscape.
Hence, this book compares proposals and issues: the
former, coming from the international perspectives
of international projects; the latter, linked to local
landscapes that must be preserved in the richness
of their values in relation to history and biodiversity;
landscapes that must be safeguarded if we are to improve the quality of life, designed as the producers of
habitable space and beauty.