1197 | 315 | A landscape-ecological urbanism approach for the regeneration of inlands smaller town. The case of Basilicata region | Alessandro Raffa; Annalisa Percoco
In the northern shore countries of the Mediterranean region, depopulation of inlands smaller towns (STs) is a particularly relevant phenomenon with diversified impacts – economic, social, environmental and cultural-, making more fragile not only the urban contexts themselves but also their landscapes. Which kind of regeneration for such contexts? Which approaches, methodologies and tools can operationalize the regeneration process? In Italy, inside the regeneration programs foreseen by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for these fragile contexts, many of the projects presented point out the need to go beyond the episodic regeneration of the urban settlement in itself (Barbera et. al. 2022), looking at the entanglement of relationships, both material and immaterial, with the landscape they belong to. The present contribution- which is part of an ongoing research on inland’s STs ecologies- through theoretical and operational contribution from Landscape Urbanism and Ecological Urbanism- looks at smaller towns’ regeneration in a more complex, interdisciplinary, holistic and multi-scalar framework. Landscape, here, is interpreted both as a medium and a model ‘in response to question of risk and resilience, adaptation and change.’ (Waldheim 2016) The research, by considering the Basilicata region, southern Italy, and its constellation of shrinking STs as a hologram of territorial fragilities for the Med region, looks at landscape as a performative infrastructure in which Nature plays a crucial role in envisioning possible sustainable development scenarios. From a theoretical-operational point of view the research tries to identify issues, methodologies and tools for an ecological regeneration of STs through a landscape/ecological urbanism approach; applicationally, this critical process takes the form of a synthetic and open mapping process-the Operational Atlas- which is conceived both as a knowledge and a transformative tool for ST’s complex regeneration.
Alessandro Raffa; Annalisa Percoco
Author 1: University of Basilicata-DiCEM and FEEM; author 2: FEEM-Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei
ID Abstract: 315