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Paesaggi periurbani

Lettura, descrizione, progetto
  • Maria Rita Gisotti,

The clear and complete relationship that historically linked city and countryside has gradually faded more and more, up to the configuration of the current situation of urban sprawl by several parties considered unsustainable at the environmental, functional and morphological level. While an approach aimed at recovering lost physical and territorial realities may not appear very effective, it is however possible to attempt to identify paths to restore structure in the contemporary settlement layouts. A structure able to newly weave ecological, functional, morphological and symbolic relations between the urban and rural dimension. In this frame of reference, a decisive role can be played by open spaces, non-built-up natural or farming environments which constitute a resource for regaining the environmental quality of the contemporary city; for the construction of a new large system of public and collective spaces; and for the redefinition of limits, boundaries and thresholds between city and countryside. These are the topics dealt with in the book through a theoretical focus on the "middle landscape", its roots and the more recent planning experiences, and through a planning exercise on the Pistoia landscape. The aim of the volume is to attempt to provide indications and tools in order to read and design landscape with urban boundaries, today a strategic sphere for the regeneration of the contemporary city.

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Maria Rita Gisotti

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2781-0551

Maria Rita Gisotti, architect, with a PhD in town and territorial planning, is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Town Planning Department of the University of Florence, where she has carried out scientific activities for several years. She mainly deals with landscape issues, also within community initiative programmes. She works with administrations and local institutions to draw up territorial plans and town planning tools. Untenured lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, she is the author of numerous scientific publications, amongst which the volume L'invenzione del paesaggio toscano. Immagine culturale e realtà fisica, Florence 2008.
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Book Title

Paesaggi periurbani

Book Subtitle

Lettura, descrizione, progetto

Authors

Maria Rita Gisotti

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Number of Pages

112

Publication Year

2012

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© 2012 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6453-236-3

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978-88-6453-233-2

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978-88-6453-236-3

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978-88-5518-906-4

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Territori

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2704-5978

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2704-579X

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